{"id":527020,"date":"2026-03-08T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527020\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:50:11","slug":"fuel-crisis-governments-playbook-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527020\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel crisis – Government\u2019s playbook revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, there\u2019s a plan to deal with fuel shortages. Rex Patrick extracted it from the Government and MWM publishes so you can follow national fuel management moves from your lounge room.<\/p>\n

The Government did not want it released. They spent more than $150K in legal fees to stop it being made public, but the Administrative Review Tribunal found that it is in the public interest for it to be available to the public.<\/p>\n

As the conflict Iranian conflict spreads regionally, as it extends in time, as refineries are attacked and damaged, and while the Strait of Hormuz remains closed to crude oil bulk carriers, Australia\u2019s mere 26 days of diesel stock are likely to give rise to the need for fuel distribution to be carefully managed.<\/p>\n

In the public interest, We publish the National liquid Fuel Emergency Response Plan. Note that it also includes a summary of State Government responses to fuel shortages.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Fuel security. What happens if the bowsers start to run dry?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Rex<\/a><\/p>\n

Rex Patrick is a former Senator for South Australia and, earlier, a submariner in the armed forces. Best known as an anti-corruption and transparency crusader, Rex is also known as the “Transparency Warrior<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, there\u2019s a plan to deal with fuel shortages. Rex Patrick extracted it from the Government and MWM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-527020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}