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Price is King – Reservation Meaningless While Prices Remain High: Katter
December 23, 2025
No one can see the Federal Government’s Gas Reservation announcement as anything but ‘the announcement when you’re not going to have an announcement’, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said.
“Until there is real, tangible action on price, then anything else is simply a ‘Clayton’s’ gas policy”, Mr Katter said.
Reliable, affordable energy is one of the key ingredients needed to unlock North West Queensland’s $680 billion minerals potential, and the KAP have long been calling for a true Gas Reservation Policy which caps the price of gas for industrial users.
“The KAP are unashamedly pro-manufacturing, pro-mining, and pro-jobs. That’s why we’ve been calling for a gas reservation for so long now,” Mr Katter said.
“The question must be asked – who is this announcement putting first? Is it Australian industry and Australian jobs, or it is putting the interests of multinational gas exporters first?
“Until the Government gets serious and caps the price of gas closer to $10/GJ, then their policy remains economic word salad that will have little to no difference on the ground where it counts,” he said.
The first of eight policy principles announced by the Federal Government that will guide the final policy, and its delivery, is ‘Existing contracts should be respected … contracts in place before today’s announcement will be considered existing …’.
Mr Katter called out the Federal Government for pandering to the gas giants and ignoring Australian jobs.
“How can they say they are supporting Australian Industry, Australian jobs, when their very first consideration is for the existing contracts! They’re clearly not serious about doing any with real meaning,” the KAP Leader said.
“If the Labor Federal government had any ticker, they’d be supporting all the manufacturing jobs that their union backers represent, not selling them out to the multinationals.
“Australian gas is first and foremost Australian. We cannot let multinationals be allowed to export a single boat load while our mines, our smelters, our fertiliser plants, are all crumbling, begging for affordable energy.
“We are the laughingstock of international commentators who simply cannot believe the free marketeers have captured our politicians so much that we are willing to be an exporter yet need to build an import terminal for gas. It simply beggars’ belief.
“Keep the gas we need, make it a maximum of $10/GJ, and let’s put Australia first,” Mr Katter said.