Editor's note

Two reports released this week warn of an impending gas shortage, and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is considering pulling the trigger on export restrictions. As Andrew Hopkins writes, it’s an intervention of last resort for a governing party built on free-market principles – and reveals the absence of a long-term, light-touch energy plan.

Madeleine De Gabriele

Deputy Editor: Energy + Environment

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Sections of pipes are lined up ready for use in the construction of a coal seam gas pipeline. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne

To avoid crisis, the gas market needs a steady steer, not an emergency swerve

Andrew Hopkins, Australian National University

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has blamed gas exports for rising energy costs, breaking with a party room determined to find renewables guilty.

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