{"id":547630,"date":"2026-03-18T04:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547630\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:27:09","slug":"ari-larijani-gholam-reza-soleimani-killed-trump-signals-conflict-exit-criticises-nato-israel-continue-hezbollah-strikes-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547630\/","title":{"rendered":"Ari Larijani, Gholam Reza Soleimani killed; Trump signals conflict exit, criticises NATO; Israel continue Hezbollah strikes in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each state and territory will be asked to select a \u201cpoint person\u201d to co-ordinate with the federal government on fuel challenges, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced, as he prepares for a meeting of national cabinet tomorrow focused on fuel issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be asking state premiers and chief ministers to appoint someone, a point person, so that the commonwealth can collaborate in a way to make sure we deal with the challenges which are there,\u201d Albanese said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Energy Minister Chris Bowen and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773808029_631_7bce5d326a7ee895fba8f8536122736058b61bbe.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Energy Minister Chris Bowen and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that we do have fuel security. All of our ships have arrived at this point, but we\u2019ve had a surge in demand, which is leading to some shortages in some areas, particularly of diesel. We\u2019re very conscious of that, and that\u2019s why we continue to work every day to make a difference,\u201d the prime minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese announced state and territory leaders would meet in Tasmania on Thursday, and flagged measures to promote resilience amid global uncertainty in the lead-up to the May budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each state and territory will be asked to select a \u201cpoint person\u201d to co-ordinate with the federal government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-547630","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\/547630","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=547630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}