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Title: Future Economic Policy for Australia
Author: Ross Garnauts ABC RN
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"Our gas prices used to be about a third of the world price. That's before we had exports. Then we allowed the unrestrained export from Gladstone."

"The United States, for example, is a very big exporter, growing rapidly, but they haven't allowed exports, except in circumstances in which they are satisfied that gas will be available at a low price to domestic users."

"Our gas prices went from being a third of the US price to now about three times the US price."

"Norway recognized that their assets owned by the people of Norway forced companies developing them to pay the value that was being given away, and their people are in a very different position to ours."