Australia’s fuel shock should be no surprise

Australia’s fuel crisis has triggered a familiar response: emergency coordination, reactive policy adjustments and renewed political attention. But the important question is why Australia still responds this way at all.

USA-Iran war highlights Australia’s fuel vulnerability

Rather than treating fuel security purely as a stockpiling problem, Australia should think about distributed fuel resilience, including larger northern storage facilities, greater redundancy in import terminals and expanded capacity to move fuel across the continent during disruption.

Lessons from Israel

Australia can learn valuable lessons from Israel in terms of civil preparedness to improve resilience against threats and disasters.

Addressing fuel insecurity

Recent global conflicts from the invasion of Ukraine, Houthi attacks on crude oil tankers in the Red Sea and Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz prove that fuel supply is no longer a theoretical risk but an active, accelerating threat.