{"id":537408,"date":"2026-03-13T08:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537408\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:41:10","slug":"australian-fuel-shortage-anxiety-forces-australian-government-to-release-reserves-as-middle-east-crisis-exposes-supply-chain-fragility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537408\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian fuel shortage anxiety forces Australian government to release reserves as Middle East crisis exposes supply chain fragility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security experts have called for the creation of a dedicated national security adviser and a comprehensive strategy to shield the economy from future shocks after the escalating conflict in the Middle East exposed Australia\u2019s growing supply chain fragility.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government on Friday released 20 per cent of the country\u2019s fuel reserves after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-threatens-us200-oil-amid-rush-to-tap-emergency-supplies-20260312-p5o9nq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Iranian crisis<\/a> led to a doubling of fuel demand and put a spotlight on Australia\u2019s reliance on imported oil and vulnerabilities in its refinery and transportation capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Security experts have called for the creation of a dedicated national security adviser and a comprehensive strategy to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-537408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537408","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=537408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}