Chris Bowen
speaker
65 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 27 May
Chris Bowen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And more latterly, we've carried legislation through the parliament to give our Export Finance Australia, our trade financing organisation, the ability to work with companies to get extra cargos into Australia to provide a bit of extra buffer because this crisis is not being solved overnight.
So as we speak, we've secured an extra 450 million litres of diesel and an extra 100 million litres of jet fuel.
That in and of itself won't be enough, but it is an addition to all the fuel that always would have arrived here anyway.
And of course, we're making these deals and announcements every few days.
The IEA standard I'm happy to talk about and our own domestic standards, we measure them differently.
So when I talk about fuel in Australia, I only talk about fuel in our economic zone.
As you know, the IEA measure can be fuel held anywhere in the world that can be sold onto the international market.
Whereas what I'm talking about is fuel that's in Australia.
That's I think the more relevant test for us as we speak in terms of our own fuel security.
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.
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