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'Pray we don't get there': Analysts forecast huge surge in petrol prices

US crude oil has posted its biggest weekly gain in futures trading history, with the war in the Middle East leading to a major disruption to global fuel supplies.
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Without stating the obvious this going to have a major effect on the general economy. Higher fuel costs add fresh momentum to inflation and especially in Australia where recent data is showing renewed upward pressure....

Interest rates are going to be heading north again!!

It's going to be a bit rough for many people already feeling this 'cost of living crisis'....
 
Football us life said:
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'Pray we don't get there': Analysts forecast huge surge in petrol prices

US crude oil has posted its biggest weekly gain in futures trading history, with the war in the Middle East leading to a major disruption to global fuel supplies.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au

Without stating the obvious this going to have a major effect on the general economy. Higher fuel costs add fresh momentum to inflation and especially in Australia where recent data is showing renewed upward pressure....

Interest rates are going to be heading north again!!

It's going to be a bit rough for many people already feeling this 'cost of living crisis'....
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Adds all a bit on and gives leadership and convenient scapegoat or excuse without having to try and do anything. Certain businesses will also use this to try and get a bit more. A lot of non essential spending will be cut by households if it already isn't
 
Fucking airlines are thieves.


The Morrison government were retards/corrupt or incompetent for not taking a stake
 
tsf said:
Fucking airlines are thieves.


The Morrison government were retards/corrupt or incompetent for not taking a stake
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Qantas got 5 billion of covid money, the executives paid themselves massive bonuses, they raised the prices of fares and cemented their monopoly and fired a couple of thousand workers. And that Irish piece of shit is lauded as some sort of business genius. Fuck them.
 
erogenouszone said:
Qantas got 5 billion of covid money, the executives paid themselves massive bonuses, they raised the prices of fares and cemented their monopoly and fired a couple of thousand workers. And that Irish piece of shit is lauded as some sort of business genius. Fuck them.
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And you get fuckwits on social media sticking up for them saying ‘it’s a business!!!’ for their high fares now.

Capitalism for the profits.
Socialism for the losses.
 
Even the people involved know this is a massive waste of money:

"Dennis Richardson has explained the reasons for his shock resignation from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, saying he felt he was "surplus to requirements" and "grossly overpaid". "


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Ex-ASIO boss says he's not needed, 'grossly overpaid' for royal commission

Former ASIO boss Dennis Richardson says he resigned from the royal commission into antisemitism because he felt he was overpaid and "surplus to requirements".
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tsf said:
Even the people involved know this is a massive waste of money:

"Dennis Richardson has explained the reasons for his shock resignation from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, saying he felt he was "surplus to requirements" and "grossly overpaid". "


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Ex-ASIO boss says he's not needed, 'grossly overpaid' for royal commission

Former ASIO boss Dennis Richardson says he resigned from the royal commission into antisemitism because he felt he was overpaid and "surplus to requirements".
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5500k a day he was on.
 
erogenouszone said:
Qantas got 5 billion of covid money, the executives paid themselves massive bonuses, they raised the prices of fares and cemented their monopoly and fired a couple of thousand workers. And that Irish piece of shit is lauded as some sort of business genius. Fuck them.
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To be fair the little irish fat fella needed the coin to pay for those extra thick lenses in his BigW spectacles....
 
tsf said:
5500k a day he was on.
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Top barristers charge twice that and more when in court.Albo wanted Richardson to head the investigation into the security organisations but then caved in to the demands for a Royal Commission and Richardson was co-opted to work with it.Maybe the first idea may have been the better choice.
 
booney52 said:
Top barristers charge twice that and more when in court.Albo wanted Richardson to head the investigation into the security organisations but then caved in to the demands for a Royal Commission and Richardson was co-opted to work with it.Maybe the first idea may have been the better choice.
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Remember - Albo has since said that he was always going to do a Royal Commission...
 
booney52 said:
Top barristers charge twice that and more when in court.Albo wanted Richardson to head the investigation into the security organisations but then caved in to the demands for a Royal Commission and Richardson was co-opted to work with it.Maybe the first idea may have been the better choice.
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I agree. Australia does have a bit of a terrorism threat in it's midst. Driven by lone actors and small groups using simple, low-cost tactics, such as knives, vehicles, or basic firearms targeting crowded places, usually with online radicalisation....

From hard-line religious-ethnonationalism all the way down to online teenage/ 20 something misogynistic dimwits..

And to be fair it's not much different to most other western countries in that respect.

The UK, France, Germany and so on...

These costly inquiries should be looking into the security services and finding at ways of giving them more resources to improve their effectiveness in fighting these terrorist threats.

I don't really believe that anti-semitism in Australia is any worse than anywhere else. Nor is it that much of a problem to be honest. Well no worse than any other hate ideology.

There's certainly an idiot problem though....there is everywhere else too.

Erradicate the idiots and you pretty much eradicate the terrorism threat at source....
 
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^ Angus Taylor (who is against renewable energy) had a laugh at Shorten for suggesting fuel reserves.
 
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Australia releases six days' worth of petrol from emergency stockpile

Australia will make available about six days' worth of petrol from its emergency stockpile and five days of diesel, the first use of its fuel reserves since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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Fuel supply is secure': Bowen
Mr Bowen said fuel supply was continuing to arrive to Australia as scheduled.

"When we say fuel supply is secure, that's what we say, that's what we mean, that's the facts," he said.

"That doesn't mean Australians in regional areas haven't faced real shortages because demand has been so high."

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor accused Mr Bowen of being "asleep at the wheel".

"Chris Bowen was in denial, he told us our fuel supplies were secure. By the end of the week, by yesterday, we heard that we had a national crisis," Mr Taylor said.

"I have been hearing from my constituents and others around Australia about their inability to get fuel supplies, farmers, truckers and others."

Mr Bowen said the government was carefully managing fuel demand and supply.

"I want Australians to have access to the fuel they need, not more, not less," the minister said.

He dismissed the suggestion fuel might have to be rationed.
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Fuel rationing to start in 2 weeks.
 
Football us life said:
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'Pray we don't get there': Analysts forecast huge surge in petrol prices

US crude oil has posted its biggest weekly gain in futures trading history, with the war in the Middle East leading to a major disruption to global fuel supplies.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au

Without stating the obvious this going to have a major effect on the general economy. Higher fuel costs add fresh momentum to inflation and especially in Australia where recent data is showing renewed upward pressure....

Interest rates are going to be heading north again!!

It's going to be a bit rough for many people already feeling this 'cost of living crisis'....
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Good news is the cost of those pesky petrol guzzling V8s will go down... ... just in time for my mid life crisis... :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
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