Sky News contributor Caleb Bond says “we have to stop gas, at this point, from being exported”, as regulators in Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia face potential gas shortages.
“If you are a gas producer in this country, at this point in time, we should be taking that gas for ourselves.
“When you have rising costs as they are, we know that people at the moment are grappling with massive inflation, low wage rises – that wholesale cost is always passed onto the consumer.
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