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

Thank you for acknowledging the work of the then Western Australian Labor government in providing a domestic gas reserve. But the reality is that we do have a range of measures in place to meet Australia's domestic needs for gas while being a responsible trade and energy partner. And, as I said, there are hundreds if not thousands of jobs in towns like Gladstone and many other towns around the country that rely on gas production and gas exports, and we don't want to jeopardise them—