For fifth-generation grazier Wayne Newton, Europe's gas troubles should be a world away, but a new boom in mining exploration could bring the crisis right to his farm gate.
His grandfather first moved to the Westerns Downs district in Queensland in 1935 from New South Wales in search of land to expand the family business.
But the Kupunn farmer now fears for his grandchildren's future on the farm, as he grapples with the massive expansion of the coal seam gas industry that experts warn could cause irreversible environmental damage.
