Oh, Australian engineers certainly know how to develop gas; it's...

Oh, Australian engineers certainly know how to develop gas; it's been demonstrated.

So it's not a case of "Australia can't"; it's a case of "Australia didn't" .

I agree

I disagree that it was all some kind of greeny fault

because we have things like the NW shelf etc - so we DO have a gas industry

it's just not Australian

we've allowed foreigners to plunder

and it's conservative voters who have egged it all on.

There have been Labor mistakes ----------- Keating championed privatisation -

and in theory, in may ways - it's good thinking. What Keating missed is the character of Australia