Vic Labor playing ‘ideological games’ on gas, says industry

Resources industry, business and union figures slammed the Victorian Labor Party’s vote to oppose the federal government’s gas strategy and warned “reckless ideological games” could put the energy security of millions of people at risk.

Labor’s Victorian branch had placed itself on the wrong side of rational energy policy by labelling the Albanese government’s Future Gas Strategy incompatible with the country’s emissions reduction targets at its annual conference on the weekend, said Peter Kos, the state director of the Australian Energy Producers group.