Australia is facing a fuel crisis. But let’s be clear about one thing:

This didn’t just happen to us by accident, this was a deliberate policy decision.

We are one of the most resource-rich nations on earth. Yet we import the fuel we depend on. We ship our resources offshore, then buy them back at a premium.

Why?

Because Labor, with the help of the Greens and the Teals, has shut down domestic capacity in pursuit of Net Zero ideology.

Refineries have closed and new energy projects get blocked, driving out investment.

Step by step, Labor dismantled our own resilience.

Now the consequences are here.

A global shock hits and Australia is exposed. No buffer, no backup, no plan.

Instead of confronting that reality, the Prime Minister offered a temporary fuel discount and hoped Australians wouldn’t ask bigger questions.

But the questions are obvious.

Why can’t we fuel ourselves?

Why are we dependent on supply chains we don’t control?

Why has a country this wealthy made itself this vulnerable?

This is what happens when ideology overrides practicality.

The sales job was that Net Zero was necessary and inevitable and we’d help save the planet along the way. Instead, Labor’s relentless push for Net Zero has trashed our economy, our national security, and drove us headfirst into a crisis.

And now we’re paying the price.

Australia didn’t run out of fuel.

We shut down the ability to make it.