Australia's energy problem isn't resources – it's strategy

Spectator Australia · Thomas J. Ulahannan · Monday 20 April 2026

Australia's energy problem isn't resources – it's strategy

Spectator Australia argues the country's energy vulnerability stems from strategic failure, not scarcity — a resource-rich nation exposed in the systems that should give it leverage.

Largest gas exporter on earth and the eastern seaboard's rationing like it's 1974. We dug the hole, sold the contents offshore on twenty-year contracts, then acted surprised when the kitchen stove ran cold. Menzies would have called it a strategy failure. Canberra calls it a market outcome and goes back to lunch.

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