The ruinously partisan gas debate

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There’s more weird gas debate today at The Australian from Robin Batterham who was president of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (2007-12), Australian chief scientist (1999-2005) and Rio Tinto Group chief scientist (1999-2009)

Last week Labor sparked a debate about gas supplies when it unveiled plans to introduce a national interest test for large liquefied natural gas products.

The plan is tantamount to protectionism, and similar policies have failed in the likes of Western Australia.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.