Queensland Premier David Crisafulli is pushing for a return to domestic drilling, unveiling Australia’s first new oil field in half a century as part of a bid to strengthen long-term fuel security amid the conflict in the Middle East.

The site, located about five hours west of Brisbane in the Taroom Trough, is already producing small volumes, with the first barrels now entering Australia’s supply.

But Crisafulli is calling on the federal government to back the project and remove barriers to scale up production.

“It’s our golden opportunity to tap into liquid gold,” he said from the site.

He said the project had been in motion well before the latest global supply crisis, with tenders called in May last year.

“This is a once-in-a-half-a-century opportunity for us to control our own sovereign destiny again,” he said.

“I want to see a time in this nation when we return to drilling and refining and storing our own fuel.”

https://7news.com.au/sunrise/david-crisafulli-pushes-drilling-after-first-oil-field-in-50-years-unveiled-in-queensland-c-22108276

(The only other reference I could find were Facebook posts)
“Sovereign destiny” got me literally LOLing.