Chris Bowen

So I put these figures out every Saturday, but the last figures I put out show that we have 44 days worth of petrol

And 30 days or so of diesel and jet fuel each, which is more than we had when the crisis began internationally.

Well, of course, always more is better.

And we are, you know, we're working on a whole range of things.

But, you know, as I said, at the moment, we've not had to ration fuel.

I don't envisage having to ration fuel at any time in the immediate foreseeable future.

We're working hard to avoid that.

Well, we have done that too, not through our government purchases.

They've been based on Singapore and South Korea and Malaysia and Brunei, our main fuel suppliers.

But the private sector has been going out and getting fuel from a diverse range of sources that we normally don't get fuel from for obvious reasons.

That's a good thing.

So the Chief Executive of BP in Australia, for example, told me when we went to see a ship that had just come in from the United States,

with fuel on it.

That's the first time we'd ever seen a BP ship from the United States in Australia.

But also Argentina is supplying us.

Algeria has been supplying us.

So we've been diversifying our supply to countries that aren't so reliant on the Straits of Honolulu.

Really, that's one of the reasons why we've got through this situation pretty well so far.

Well, inevitably, it's going to continue to play a role when it eventually, hopefully, reopens in supplying us.

But I do think, inevitably, we and the private sector will also be looking at that diversity of supply.