A new report claims that in the past handful of years, Australia has exported enough gas to supply domestic needs for two decades - even as local prices surge to record highs and warnings of shortages persist.

The Australia Institute's analysis found that the country's low-cost gas was largely being exported, while the more difficult-to-access, environmentally-damaging, high-cost gas was left for domestic use.

In the past five years, the report found, the federal government had permitted the export of the equivalent of 22 years of Australia's total gas demand.

It also claimed the gas industry used more gas to process gas for export than Australians used for power plants, manufacturing, or households.

In 2023-2024, 83 per cent of all natural gas extracted in Australia went to the expo

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