Abstract Thirteen CCS projects involving the capture and/or storage of carbon dioxide in Australia are currently proposed or underway. The projects range in maturity from Australia’s first storage project (the CO2CRC Otway Project) and the CSIRO Loy Yang PCC Pilot Project which are already underway, to projects which are unlikely to be fully operational until 2015 or later. They range in scale from relatively modest pilot scale capture projects (Munmorah, Hazelwood, CO2CRC H3, Mulgrave, Loy Yang), to commercially significant rates of CO 2 storage of 10–50,000 tonnes CO 2 per annum (Callide Oxyfuel, Otway) to proposals for medium scale injection of up to 500,000 tonnes CO 2 per annum (ZeroGen, Coolimba), 3–4 million tonnes per annum for the Gorgon LNG Project and up to 10 million tonnes of CO 2 per annum for the Monash (coal to liquids) Project. It is encouraging to see this high level of interest in CCS in Australia. At the same time it has to be recognised that most of these projects have not advanced beyond the feasibility scale at this time and not all of them will prove to be commercially or environmentally viable. Additionally, several of the existing CCS projects have been at the feasibility stage for several years and the slow rate of progress is a concern given the importance of CCS deployment to Australia. Australia is seen as one of the leaders in the demonstration and deployment of CCS, with billions of dollars committed to CCS by industry and governments over the next 5–10 years. Nonetheless, it is important to examine ways of further accelerating the large-scale deployment of CCS by resolving outstanding issues including financial, liability and other questions which may be impeding progress.