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And this continued for years.

And when the war ended in 1945, there wasn't an end to the petrol rationing in Australia.

The UK was in huge amounts of debt.

And given that at the time, our ties with the UK were much stronger than they are now, Australia was expected to continue to make sacrifices to help the UK pay off its debt to the United States post-war.

That meant rationing continued here for years.

Yeah, there was a huge run on petrol and that meant it became much more tricky to find, which caused chaos in industries that no longer had access to the petrol that they needed.

Shortly after that time, there was a federal election and the incumbent Labor government lost.

So over the coming decades, Australia pivoted to building its relationship with the US, a relationship that still exists to this day, although it's been rockier since Donald Trump came in.

And of course, the US and Israel's military operation in Iran leading to the oil crisis that we're seeing now.

So after the break, we're going to go back to the last time Iran was a major player in a fuel rationing discussion in Australia.

That was 1979.

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We've spoken about this before, Andrew, back in our shortcut on Iran after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death, but 1979 was a major year in world history, was the year of the Iranian revolution.

The reason the Iranian revolution caused such a disruption is that many of the protesters in that event were workers in the oil sector, and that led to a downturn in production, which disrupted the international supply.

Yeah, and it worked a lot better that time.