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Aug 2021
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Keith Pitt on Australia’s energy ambitio...

The Guardian
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Katharine Murphy speaks with the federal resources minister, Keith Pitt, about the government’s gas-fired recovery plan, the export of energy resources and Australia’s record on climate action 
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