I must say that, of all the prime ministers Premier Perrottet has dealt with, I'm his favourite. He tells me that. But you don't have to just look at the public sector across the spectrum; you can look at comments on 8 November from Kevin Gallagher, chief executive of Santos. This is what he had to say on 8 November:

There are conversations of fear that I never expected to see in my lifetime and in Australia they are the consequence of more than a decade of energy policy failure that quite frankly I've been warning about for many years.