Op-Ed: Australia’s fuel (in)security and our lack of national resilience – Defence Connect

Australia has long struggled to meet its obligations to maintain a domestic supply of liquid fuels, drawing the condemnation of the International Energy Agency (IEA) and leaving the nation critically vulnerable to fluctuations in price and geo-strategic competition, now amid the COVID-19 outbreak, Air Vice-Marshal (Ret’d) John Blackburn, AO, believes is the time to rectify…

The Strategist – A super approach to solving Australia’s fuel storage woes?

While Energy Minister Angus Taylor has highlighted that Australia’s ‘supply chain resilience has meant that during the Covid-19 pandemic, we have not faced shortages’, he, and the government more broadly, have also acknowledged that Australia needs to improve its resilience. Click here to read this article on ASPI – The Australian Strategic Policy Institute – A super…