{"id":564815,"date":"2026-03-26T03:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/564815\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:59:09","slug":"question-time-returns-to-parliament-as-coalition-says-labor-too-secretive-on-fuel-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/564815\/","title":{"rendered":"question time returns to parliament as Coalition says Labor too secretive on fuel supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce urged the government to immediately bring in fuel rationing, arguing that by the time shortages hit, it will be too late.<\/p>\n<p>He said farmers were considering how they could conserve their fuel consumption as prices rocket, and the effects would eventually be felt across the country.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Member for New England Barnaby Joyce.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cab2e435163570f990b01f44244a9ade7bfd094e.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Member for New England Barnaby Joyce.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t see it, maybe in Sydney. You can\u2019t see it, maybe in Melbourne or Canberra, but we can see it out in the country,\u201d he told reporters as he arrived at parliament this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is going to ripple through. It\u2019s going to start with a few sort of peculiarities. Isn\u2019t that interesting? I don\u2019t seem to have any eggs today. And then it\u2019s going to build up and up and up and up. But by the time it arrives, it\u2019s too late.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joyce said it wasn\u2019t feasible to wind down food production \u201cthen overnight belt them back up again\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t work like that. Therefore, [Prime Minister Anthony Albanese] should be having rationing now, and he should be brave enough to say to the Australian people, look, you\u2019re not going to like this, but you\u2019re going to appreciate it. A plan is better than panic, and panic is where we\u2019re going.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today, One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce urged the government to immediately bring in fuel rationing, arguing that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-564815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564815","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=564815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}