Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Of course, what we've sought to do in the not quite one term we've been in office is to shore up gas supplies both for domestic use and to meet the export contracts that have been entered into by a range of companies over previous years, well before we were in office. The fact is that Australia does produce much more gas than we use at the moment, and the gas that we don't use is exported—and those exports make a lot of money for Australia, including in towns like Gladstone. I was in Gladstone a week or two ago, Senator Hanson. I don't know when the last time you were in Gladstone was. But there are many, many jobs in towns like Gladstone that depend upon the export of gas.