# The government releases a Future Gas Strategy that names new supply

Date: 2024

## The fact

On 9 May 2024 Resources Minister Madeleine King released Australia’s Future Gas Strategy. Principle three states that new sources of gas supply are needed through the economy-wide transition, while principle one restates net zero by 2050.

## Context

Climate Change Act sat as parent statute. Neighbouring North West Shelf approval is a child. He did not sit as every state petroleum minister.

Climate Act 2022 is the parent target statute. North West Shelf 2025 is a child approval.

The Prime Minister of Australia chairs Cabinet and advises the Governor-General. Parliament enacts; the Governor-General assents. He does not write a High Court judgment, a state housing approval, or a US AUKUS submarine yard print.

## Evidence and sources

Department of Industry, Science and Resources carries the official instrument or communique. 9News records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [fossil-fuel dependence](/drivers/fossil-fuel-dependence) and energy security: a completed Cabinet-owned strategy that names new gas supply through 2050.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 9 May 2024 strategy publication, independently placed on the ministerial record.

Not established: that any named basin was thereby approved that Thursday, or a unique later emissions coefficient.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He led Cabinet. State petroleum ministers and EPBC decision-makers share later approvals.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The government releases a Future Gas Strategy that names new supply, not a later speech about The government releases a Future Gas Strategy that names new supply.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The government releases a Future Gas Strategy that names new supply on 2024-05-09 is not a licence to treat every later Department of Industry, Science and Resources communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The government releases a Future Gas Strategy that names new supply into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to King released. He led Cabinet. State petroleum ministers and EPBC decision-makers share later approvals. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Anthony Albanese: https://factrail.ai/people/anthony-albanese

## Drivers

- Fossil-Fuel Dependence: https://factrail.ai/drivers/fossil-fuel-dependence
- Decarbonization and climate-mitigation policy: https://factrail.ai/drivers/env-decarbonization-policy
- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security

## Sources

- https://www.9news.com.au/national/australia-future-gas-strategy/15c17ed0-7682-43da-94e7-8963e5783335
- https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/future-gas-strategy

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-future-gas-2024