Covid-level crisis? How Australia ignored fuel warnings
Today, Institute of Economic Research Australia chair John Blackburn on how Australia botched its emergency fuel plan.
John Blackburn spent four decades in the Air Force, rising to deputy chief.
For more than a decade he has warned that Australia is too reliant on imported fuel, too light on reserves, and too exposed if a global crisis – just like the one we’re in now – disrupts supply.
Now, as more than 100 servos across Australia run dry and a Trump ultimatum looms – threatening to make the fuel crisis worse – Australia is paying the price for our lack of preparedness.
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Today, Institute of Economic Research Australia chair John Blackburn on how Australia botched its emergency fuel plan, what we should do next, and why the Iran war is shaping up as a Covid-level crisis.
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