Angus Taylor attacks Beetaloo Basin activists and says Australia right to expand fossil fuels

Taylor says Australia has kept our foot on the accelerator' when it comes to supply of oil and gas

The Australian energy minister, Angus Taylor, has criticised activists" for opposing new oil and gas development in the Beetaloo Basin, declaring European nations are now regretting not pursuing a gas-fired recovery".

After the United States banned Russian oil imports in response to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and the United Kingdom said it would phase them out by year's end, Taylor told Sky News Australia that Australia had been correct to continue expanding fossil fuel development.