Gas Reservation Must Deliver for Manufacturing

News | 22 December 2025

The Federal Government’s promise of east coast gas reservation is a welcome and important milestone for Australian manufacturing. Now it needs to deliver.

Five previous Federal Governments rejected gas reservation, to the detriment of manufacturing jobs, investment and competitiveness. By confronting past policy mistakes and charting a path to fixing them, the Albanese Government can instead show they mean what they say about supporting manufacturing.

Click below to read Manufacturing Australia’s statement

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