The hard truth for Victorian and NSW leaders in this energy crisis is that their fortunes are now in the hands of the premiers who sit in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. | OPINION by CroweDM
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The two ideas seem to pass the pub test. Doesn’t the gas belong to all of us? But the answer depends on where the pub is. If it is anywhere west of Victoria or north of NSW, the great ideas look awfully like the southern states trying to get their problems fixed for free.The hard truth for Victorian and NSW leaders in this energy crisis is that their fortunes are now in the hands of the premiers who sit in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.
This is an utterly new dynamic for Victoria, the state that powered eastern Australia for decades with gas from Bass Strait.changed everything and, yes, the fatal mistake in Canberra was the failure to reserve any of the new gas for the domestic market. Reserving it now would be a nightmare – with live questions about who would pay. And the challenge is dramatically bigger because Victorian and NSW leaders did not act on the looming shortage.
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