Footnotes

Chapter 1 - Introduction

[1]        North West Shelf Venture, http://www.nwsg.com.au/about/venture.html

[2]        DomGas, Submission 1, p. 5. The DomGas Alliance represents gas customers including Alcoa, Alinta, the Dampier Bunbury pipeline, Fortescue Metals, Newmont and Horizon Power and Synergy.

[3]        DomGas, Submission 1, p. 5.

[4]        Apache Energy is the second largest producer of both oil and gas in the offshore Carnarvon Basin in Western Australia. Its primary production hub is on Varanus Island, and it provides around 30 per cent of WA's domestic natural gas supply. BHP Billiton and ARC Energy supply about 5 per cent of the market.

[5]        Authorisation A18492

[6]        Australia Competition and Consumer Commission, 'ACCC revokes North West Shelf Gas joint marketing authorisation', Media Release, 6 March 2008.

[7]        This authorisation was for a fixed term. It expired in 2005. See 'North West Shelf authorisation', Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, 31 July 2008. http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/86976/fromItemId/621589

[8]        The DomGas Alliance was formed in 2006 to represent the interests of gas consumers and transporters.

[9]        DomGas Alliance, Submission, 18 January 2008, p. 2. http://www.accc.gov.au/content/trimFile.phtml?trimFileName=D08+7285.pdf&trimFileTitle=D08+7285.pdf&trimFileFromVersionId=821029

 

Chapter 2 - The case for maintaining the joint marketing arrangements

[1]        Ms Eva Howell, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, pp. 2–3.

[2]        Ms Eva Howell, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 4.

[3]        Ms Eva Howell, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 3.

[4]        Ms Eva Howell, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 3.

[5]        North West Shelf Venture, Submission 3, p. 4.

[6]        North West Shelf Venture, Submission 3, p. 5.

[7]        North West Shelf Venture, Submission 3, p. 4.

[8]        Ms Eva Howell, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 8.

 

Chapter 3 - The case for ending the joint marketing arrangements

[1]        Mr Stuart Hohnen, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 18.

[2]        DomGas, Submission 1, p. 5.

[3]        Woodside alone recorded a half-yearly net profit this year of over $1 billion.

[4]        DomGas, Submission 1, p. 6.

[5]        Mr Stuart Hohnen, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 19.

[6]        Mr Stuart Hohnen, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 26.

[7]        Mr Gavin Goh, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 25.

[8]        Mr Stuart Hohnen, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 28.

[9]        Mr Gavin Goh, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 25.

[10]      Mr Stuart Hohnen, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 25.

[11]      Mr Stuart Hohnen, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 28.

[12]      Mr Stuart Hohnen, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 19.

[13]      Ms Eva Howell, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 13.

[14]      Mr Gavin Goh, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 25.

[15]      Associate Professor Frank Zumbo, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 35.

[16]      Trade Practices Act 1974, Section 45(2)(a)(ii)

[17]      Mr Stuart Hohnen, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 23.

[18]      Associate Professor Frank Zumbo, Submission 4, p. 5.

 

Chapter 4 - The committee's view

[1]        Ms Eva Howell, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 5.

[2]        Ms Eva Howell, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 6.

[3]        Ms Eva Howell, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p.4.

[4]        Mr Stuart Hohnen, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 29.

[5]        Brian Cassidy, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Correspondence, 10 November 2008.

 

Coalition Senators' Minority Report

[1]        North West Shelf Venture, Submission 3, p. 3.

[2]        North West Shelf Venture, Submission 3, pp 3-4, citing North West Shelf Project, Authorisation No A90624, 29 July 1998, pp 47-8.

 

Minority report Senator Nick Xenophon

[1]        Associate Professor Frank Zumbo, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 31.

[2]        Associate Professor Frank Zumbo, Submission 4, p. 6.

[3]        It increases the Herfindahl-Hirschman concentration index (which can vary from 0 representing perfect competition to 1 representing monopoly) from around 0.16 to 0.52.

[4]        Associate Professor Frank Zumbo, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 31.

[5]        Ms Eva Howell, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, pp 13, 16.

[6]        Associate Professor Frank Zumbo, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 35.

[7]        Associate Professor Frank Zumbo, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, pp 32–4.

[8]        Associate Professor Frank Zumbo, Proof Committee Hansard, 11 November 2008, p. 36.