Will Labor be any better on energy?

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Bill Shorten has also spoken on energy today at the AFR Summit:

Mr Shorten said Labor would also introduce a national interest test for all new LNG facilities to “guard against a repeat of the current crisis”.

He said Labor also supported the “responsible” development of onshore gas although fracking was largely a state issue.

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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.