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Australia politics live: Labor tells Barnaby Joyce ‘stop panicking people’ over potential food shortages as fuel supply concerns dominate question time

By Cait Kelly (now) and Krishani Dhanji (earlier)March 26, 2026·Source: The Guardian·5 views

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBarnaby Joyce calls for fuel rationing, saying a ‘plan is better than panic’One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce who yesterday called on the government to pull the trigger on the Liquid Fuel Emergency Act, is today calling for the government to start rationing fuel.This is going to ripple through. It’s going to start with a few sort of peculiarities.

Isn’t that interesting? I don’t seem to have any eggs today.

And then it’s going to build up and up and up and up. But by the time it arrives, it’s too late …[The government] should be having rationing now, and he should be brave enough to say to the Australian people, look, you’re not going to like this, but you’re going to appreciate it.

A plan is better than panic, and panic is where we’re going. Continue reading...

Originally reported by The Guardian. Read the original article

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