Anthony McDonald

And come Thursday morning, it was just the imagery of it, you know, and the timing of it was really something.

And obviously it's a good thing no one was hurt, but what's likely to hurt even more are our hip pockets.

I think James, like the prime minister says, don't worry about it.

Don't worry about the prices, but I am.

Australia's petrol and diesel markets, they're so finely balanced, you know, that when you take something like a few percent of supply out of the market, which is what they're talking about now.

It makes us rely even more on import markets, the volatile prices.

It's hard to see how this doesn't flow through to high prices at the Bowser, even if just for a little while.

I mean, obviously, it hurts Viva Energy, the company that owns the refinery.

It hurts their profits.

But I think, James, the person that really hurts the most is Anthony Albanese.

This is the last thing.

He needed.

He's got a huge lead in the parliament in terms of seats, but one thing that could bring him completely unstuck, I think, is fuel, fuel prices, fuel security, fuel resilience, fuel's impact on the economy.

Fuel's important to big and small business, and it's so important to Australians' expectations of their everyday life.

Yeah, yeah.

Nobody knows this, right?

Like, why else would he cut the fuel excise?

at the first available opportunity.

Why else would he do that rare national address?

Why else would he be flitting around overseas, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, wherever he can to try and show that he's scrambling to get his hands on more petrol and diesel and oil?