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Marion Rae

Call for export controls on east coast gas to save jobs

A report calls for all new gas export contracts to be based on a national self-sufficiency test. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Electrification and export controls for east coast gas would reserve "finite and precious gas resources" for heavy industries and save hundreds of thousands of jobs, a union says.

A report to be released at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday was commissioned by the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union and Lock the Gate Alliance, with local industries threatened by a gas shortfall and stubbornly high energy bills.

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