Chair for the Anglo-Dutch supermajor’s Australian subsidiary, Andrew Smith, warned 22 years of uninterrupted economic growth had created complacency and a view “the good times are here to stay”.

“It recently occurred to me that the graduate recruits that come into my company probably have no memory of anything other than a growing economy. The mining boom has made everything look easy,” he told delegates at the LNG 18 conference in Perth on Friday.

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