Never trust the Grattan Institute on energy policy

Monday 20 October 2025

In 2013, the Grattan Institute, under the energy policy leadership of former Origin Energy executive Tony Wood, lobbied hard against an East Coast domestic gas reservation policy:

Grattan Institute lobbied against East Coast gas revervation in 2013.

Grattan also lobbied for Western Australia to remove its gas reservation policy:

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.