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Rachael Ward

Blunt power warning as energy boss pushes onshore gas

Woodside boss Meg O'Neill has called for an end to what she calls "anti-gas rhetoric". (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS)

Australian manufacturing will be eroded and power to the sector switched off unless urgent action is taken to reduce barriers to gas investment, the boss of Australia's biggest energy company warned.

Woodside chief executive Meg O'Neill called for an end to "anti-gas rhetoric" and to scrap Victoria's ban on certain onshore gas production over concerns supply shortages would hit economy.

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