James Thompson

Could this have come at a worse time?

What are the chances?

And he's not going to be caught, Anthony, doing the Scott Morrison fail of being on holidays in Hawaii while bushfires are on.

He's getting straight back on the plane to come back and walk around the Aviva refinery in Geelong with a worried look on his face.

But...

My sense, Anthony, is Australia's actually done probably a pretty reasonable job of pulling the strings it can pull.

The government doesn't control or own any of these fuel refineries.

So the best that Albanese has been able to do is really go around the world saying to partners, trading partners, look, we're not going to put export controls on our gas and we want assurances you're not going to do the same with diesel and petrol.

So that's a bit of action.

My worry, Anthony, have we pulled all the strings that we could have pulled at this point?

We've got a few tankers heading our way over the next few weeks.

They've started to arrive.

But after that, that's when it's going to get tricky, isn't it?

You can't magic this stuff up out of nowhere.

And now we've got this refinery weighing on production even further.

Yeah, and we are a long way from all those places where it's made.

So, yeah, this doesn't get any easier.

Oh, maybe, Anthony, but I first think we need to start with an apology for what I'm about to say to all our Hungarian listeners out there.

This is really testing my knowledge of Hungarian politics.

But look, I mean, this election has been really interesting because of all the subplots.