Community and Workforce Visual Presentation CW02: A narrative-based framework for energy-transition consultations: insights from Australia’s future gas strategy

Community and Workforce Visual Presentation CW02 Public consultations offer a unique window into the narrative logic shaping stakeholder expectations in policymaking. Analysing 244 consultation submissions to Australia’s Future Gas Strategy, this study develops a narrative-based framework that identifies four distinct stakeholder groups with competing assumptions about responsibility, timing, fairness, and legitimacy. These typologies reveal a temporal-justice fault line that reshapes alliances and conditions how energy policies might be interpreted. The analysis also identifies a lack of trust in the regulator, driven by perceptions of opaque modelling and procedural inconsistency. The resulting framework provides a practical tool for designing more meaningful consultation processes and anticipating narrative reactions in future energy transition policy settings. To access the Visual Presentation click on 'Supplementary data' below. To read the full paper click here