Australia ‘well supplied’ with fuel, minister says; staff ordered to leave Israel and UAE

Australia’s resources minister, Madeleine King, will travel to Japan for talks with global counterparts about shoring up fuel supplies at the Indo‑Pacific Energy Security Forum. She said she would meet counterparts from the US, Japan, South Korea, Timor Leste and other countries to discuss petrol and diesel supplies and was "hoping to achieve good discussions about where everyone else is sitting".

Brent crude surged to more than US$100 a barrel amid reports Iran had been laying mines in the strait of Hormuz, and King warned the longer the war in Iran lasts "the worse the effects will hit the whole global economy." She sought to reassure Australians that "we are well supplied with fuel … We are still seeing ships come in and deliver refined fuel on the west coast and the east coast and we have no indication that that will be delayed in any sense," while saying she could not predict when the conflict will end and hopes it de‑escalates soon.

The government has ordered non-essential staff to leave Israel and the UAE.

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