Woodside vs the Planet

How a Company Captured a Country; Quarterly Essay 99

Marian Wilkinson

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01 September 2025

Political activism; Energy industries & utilities; Australian Society

Series: Quarterly Essay

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Why is Australia doubling down on fossil fuels?

The world may have committed at Paris to hold back dangerous climate change, but Australia's fossil-fuel giant Woodside is doubling down- it has bold new plans to keep producing gas out to 2070. Support from the major parties is locked in, so something has to give.

This is a story of power and influence, pollution and protest. How does one company capture a country? How convincing is Woodside's argument that gas is a necessary transition fuel, as the world decarbonises? And what is the new ""energy realism"" narrative being pushed by Trump's White House?

In this engrossing essay, Marian Wilkinson reveals the ways of corporate power and investigates the new face of resistance and disruption. The stakes could not be higher.

""The gas companies and the Labor governments in WA and Canberra had refined their defence- the gas industry was helping the world decarbonise, curbing its emissions and providing energy security. It sounded like the planet could hardly have a better friend than Australia's LNG industry and companies like Woodside."" -Marian Wilkinson, Woodside vs the Planet

This issue contains correspondence relating to Hard New World by Hugh White from Lachlan Harris, Emma Shortis, Ali Wyne, James Curran, Susannah Patton, Mark Edele, Brendan Taylor, Clive Edwards, and Hugh White.

By: Marian Wilkinson
Imprint: Black Inc
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 166mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 204g
ISBN: 9781760645014
ISBN 10: 176064501X
Series: Quarterly Essay
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 01 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marian Wilkinson is a multi-award-winning investigative journalist and a reporter at ABC TV's Four Corners. She has been a foreign correspondent and deputy editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and an executive producer of Four Corners. Her books include The Fixer, Dark Victory (with David Marr) and The Carbon Club.