{"id":561634,"date":"2026-03-24T18:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561634\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:21:13","slug":"trump-postpones-iran-strikes-on-nuclear-power-plants-trump-says-talks-over-strait-of-hormuz-reopening-progressing-mohammad-bagher-qalibaf-labels-talks-fake-news-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561634\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump postpones Iran strikes on nuclear power plants; Trump says talks over Strait of Hormuz reopening progressing; Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf labels talks \u2018fake news\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business Council of Australia chief executive Bran Black says Australians should be encouraged to use public transport to get to work during the fuel crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Black said it could be a more effective way to conserve fuel and cut down on costs than encouraging workers to stay home, as suggested on Friday by International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Business Council of Australia chief executive Bran Black.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/09d7163e6d0ff5b14054d3a1b44cfe5dc1271f61.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Business Council of Australia chief executive Bran Black.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that we should be looking at wherever we sensibly can reduce our fuel consumption, but at the same time, this is all about balance and being sensible,\u201d Black told ABC\u2019s Afternoon Update.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo at the same time, we need to account for the fact that there are businesses that depend for their livelihoods each and every day on foot traffic, and we need to make sure that they can continue to stay open.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Black said that while some of the supply chain issues were similar to the shocks felt during the COVID-era shutdowns, people \u201cdon\u2019t have to socially isolate. We can use public transport, and my advice would be, if people can sensibly use public transport coming to work as they ordinarily would, support their small businesses, then they should absolutely do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Black\u2019s comments follow a call from the Victorian Farmers Federation last week for people to take public transport to conserve fuel for farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business Council of Australia chief executive Bran Black says Australians should be encouraged to use public transport to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-561634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561634","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=561634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}