This is my final book review for 2025, and it feels fitting to end the year with Quarterly Essay 99: Woodside vs the People by Marian Wilkinson. In this expansive and meticulously researched essay, Wilkinson traces the history of Woodside Energy, Australia’s dominant liquefied natural gas (LNG) producer, and its outsized influence on the nation’s energy landscape. Wilkinson interrogates the company’s leadership culture, its carefully cultivated proximity to political power, and the way these relationships have insulated Woodside from meaningful accountability. Most powerfully, she examines […]