Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) | Hansard source

What I would say to you is it is important to ensure we maximise the benefit to our country of Australia's gas reserves, and that requires us to first ensure that we maintain a market which enables investment certainty which enables the investments of billions of dollars. They are multibillion-dollar projects to bring on gas to the market. It is also important to ensure that Australians and Australian jobs are benefited by the gas reserves we have. We want us to not only be a good exporter; we want us to do more. We want to actually ensure that we have sufficient gas in domestic supply to enable manufacturing jobs in this country and advanced manufacturing jobs in this country. You talk a lot, on your side of politics, about the importance of energy. Well, this is an example of how energy security underpins economic— (Time expired)