Joel Fitzgibbon blasted by Mark Butler for backing gas-led Covid recovery plan

Labor's climate and energy spokesman says taxpayer underwriting of new gas infrastructure would be longest white elephant in Australian history'

Labor's climate and energy spokesman Mark Butler has blasted his frontbench colleague Joel Fitzgibbon for endorsing the taxpayer underwriting of new gas infrastructure, championed by one of Scott Morrison's most influential business advisers, before seeing the specifics.

Fitzgibbon, the shadow resources minister, declared on Wednesday that Nev Power, the chair of Scott Morrison's Covid advisory commission, was on the right path lobbying the government to support a gas-led recovery from the economic shock created by the pandemic.