Steve Price

Potentially.

The first test will come with this Farah by-election, which is coming up in a few weeks.

We will see who wins that.

I'm predicting an independent Teal will win that seat.

So...

Pauline has forced these people on the centre-right of politics, as you put them, to go down this track.

We'll see what it does in the polling when that comes out next.

Well, they obviously all think that they're going to have potentially a loss.

at the next election or they might lose their own seat she's lost four in fact now one went last year yeah and i'm told there's two more that will go between now and the election so that'll make it six uh so yes uh insiders tell me that what she's doing is rounding up fellow travelers

promoting them into positions of ministers to try and stop herself being axed before the election.

That's what her great fear is.

So she's promoting people from her own faction and that's getting ready for the election.

She hopes she'll still be there.

The National Party, by the way, have pre-selected a candidate to stand against her who very nearly won the same area during a federal election.

So I think she's in trouble with her own seat.

Their estimates on their fuel bill is around $3.3 billion for the next 12 months.

That's up on the estimates earlier by $800 million.

So they are really feeling the effects of the shortage of Avgas or Getfuel.

We get most of it, if not all of it, from international sources.

A lot of it comes...