Anthony McDonald

Like I said, the fire was terrible imagery.

And the way that Albanese has now flown back from Malaysia, cut his trip short to be on site at Geelong, he's clearly worried about the potential fallout from this.

Yeah.

Because, you know, the population could quickly look for a head on a stick.

And while Australia's retreated out of fuel refineries quite quickly over the past 15 years, you know, we've had four or five of them shut down and it's happened under successive governments.

It won't be the former prime minister's heads on sticks.

No one's talking about Scott Morrison, Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott, Julia Gillard or Kevin Rudd at the moment.

They're not fronting up for press conferences.

It is Anthony Albanese.

So, shocker.

Yeah, it's true.

The pre-war shipments haven't even finished yet.

They're due to finish this weekend.

So we don't have the actual supply shortage yet.

But, you know, there's a headline this morning, James, you know, Albanese secures another 100 million litres of diesel out of Brunei, which is great.

And 100 million litres sounds like a lot, and it's a lot in the context of most people's consumption.

But, you know, Fortescue, for example, 100 million litres, that's like six weeks' worth of what it needs.

And, like, Fortescue's our third biggest miner.

We've got these huge industrial users that rely on the stuff.

Our stomach for diesel, petrol, aviation fuel, it's huge, you know.