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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Dan Jervis-Bardy

Labor is open to fresh options to secure east coast gas supplies. Is it about to make a radical shift?

Australian Energy Minister Chris Bowen
Energy minister Chris Bowen has suggested any gas reservation scheme would be limited to new projects in a key departure from the Coalition’s past proposal. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

A sweeping review of domestic gas market regulation will be conducted over the next six months as the federal government attempts to shore up supplies of a fossil fuel it argues is critical to energy affordability, security and the renewables transition.

The government has opened the door to establishing a scheme to reserve east coast gas for domestic use – an idea it criticised when Peter Dutton pursued it at the federal election.

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