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Ryan Stokes is a classic modern Australian whinger, no different to his bogan cousin seeking a Centrelink handout, other than his aftershave.
SGH supports a reliable, affordable and well-supplied domestic gas market. We are 100 per cent Australian and sit on both sides of the energy value chain. We are a gas producer, and through Boral, we are one of the country’s larger industrial users of gas, across more than 300 sites that employ close to 8000 people. We understand the importance of a reliable supply of gas because we rely on it ourselves.
From that position, we say this scheme, as drafted, is the wrong mechanism.
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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.
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