Anthony McDonald

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?

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.