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Speaker 1: Murriol's Ossie correspondents with us Hamas but in Heather, all right,

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Speaker 1: who's this new fuel boss.

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Speaker 2: Well, we don't know a whole lot about her. I

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Speaker 2: mean she's a former CEO and the energy sector, the

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Speaker 2: energy regulator, and she has been appointed as the go

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Speaker 2: to person at the federal level. And what Anthony Albanese,

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Speaker 2: he's instructed all the states and territories today to appoint

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Speaker 2: a single person in pardon me, to basically report up

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Speaker 2: the chain about local state level and territory level local

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Speaker 2: fuel supplies diesel and petrol, and I guess gas as well,

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Speaker 2: because you know I heard you mention that blog from

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Speaker 2: over here. The federal government says, you know, we've got

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Speaker 2: twenty nine days supply of jet fuel. No need to

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Speaker 2: concern there. But don't forget China as the main supplier

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Speaker 2: of jet fueld to this country, and it's flagged an

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Speaker 2: export ban on jet fuel. So you've got also the

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Speaker 2: National Farmers Federation, a lot of farmers. I mean it's

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Speaker 2: not as though I go to the pump, you go

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Speaker 2: to the pump. We might put eighty liters in our tanks.

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Speaker 2: The farming community, I mean they're often putting four hundred,

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Speaker 2: five hundred, one thousand liters more in their big machinery

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Speaker 2: and that's you know, and they need that to get

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Speaker 2: crops in and to bring stuff into the cities to

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Speaker 2: feed the rest of us. So it is of concern,

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Speaker 2: there's no doubt about that. So Anthony Albernezi, as I say,

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Speaker 2: has convened this National Cabinet meeting assurances that listen, it's

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Speaker 2: not a supply problem, it's a demand problem. People are

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Speaker 2: out there going silly. Apparently Bunnings has run out of

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Speaker 2: jerry cans in some parts of Australia. I had a

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Speaker 2: stat this morning. In the last few weeks, what's the

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Speaker 2: date now, nineteenth of March, we've had two hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty one drive offs from petrol stations in South Australia

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Speaker 2: now this month that's more a bigger part of this.

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Speaker 2: That's more than twice the number of the previous week.

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Speaker 2: So look, it is of concern and molding concern in

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Speaker 2: terms of the supply, particularly of diesel, because let's face it,

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Speaker 2: that is the national heroine over here. We need diesel

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Speaker 2: for everything, to get trucks and many passenger vehicles as well.

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Speaker 2: But I mean the trucking industry runs on diesel.

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Speaker 1: Muzz. At times like these, there will obviously be allegations

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Speaker 1: of price gouging, But do you think there's anything to it?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I drive around Sydney right and in my

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Speaker 2: part of Sydney it's you know, it's usually the most

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Speaker 2: expensive fuel in the city, my local unleaded. You get

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Speaker 2: the E ten stuff down the bottom of the hill

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Speaker 2: from where I am here and Manly and it's two

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Speaker 2: dollars twenty nine a liga for the E ten the

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Speaker 2: ethanol enhanced fuel, but up in Armadale, for example, six

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Speaker 2: hours northern Sydney, up in New England. I heard one report.

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Speaker 2: I've not seen this myself, but I had one report

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Speaker 2: some service station that it was charging three dollars forty

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Speaker 2: for a leader for a leader of gas. Now, that

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Speaker 2: is exorbitant, that is completely ripping people off. So the

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Speaker 2: a Triple our consumer watchdog, the a Trip will see

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Speaker 2: the Competition and Consumer Commission has announced an inquiry into

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Speaker 2: this old in the big four fuel distributors. The other concern,

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Speaker 2: of course, going back to farming a community a lot

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Speaker 2: of supplies and not getting out to regional and rural centers.

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Speaker 2: The big distributors are filling up the city bowsers, but

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Speaker 2: not so much in the bush, and that's of mounting

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Speaker 2: concern as well. So look, it's a big juggling act

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Speaker 2: at this stage of the government saying he that nothing

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Speaker 2: to worry about, but we're in good shape, depending on

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Speaker 2: entirely on how long this varney in the Middle East lasts.

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Speaker 1: Now mass did you see the story of the Sydney

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Speaker 1: Morning here Ald today, the article, Yes, you really should

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Speaker 1: wash your new clothes before wearing them. And here's why.

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Speaker 2: Look, I did read it and I actually thought of you,

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Speaker 2: did you?

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Speaker 1: I thought of you too, But unlike you, I came

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Speaker 1: prepared and printed it off. And apparently you're right to

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Speaker 1: do it because it's got from waldehyde in it, which

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Speaker 1: is the thing they used to prevent the wrinkles.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's right, and I'm just extemporizing here, but you

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Speaker 2: can imagine the perps underpants you don't like wrinkles in them.

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Speaker 2: But look, any new clothing, I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 2: I've just always watched it a new shit, your pair

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Speaker 2: of bundies, a pair of jeans, socks, it all goes

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Speaker 2: in the washing machine. You give it a good belting

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Speaker 2: and then I hang it out and it's good to go.

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Speaker 1: You know, wise from you as well.

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Speaker 2: Funny you looked at that article, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: I think of you often, muss you look after yourself.

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Speaker 1: Marrie Old's Australia correspondent. For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive,

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