Australia politics live: opposition calls on Labor to activate emergency powers to tackle fuel crisis

<p>Angus Taylor says government must direct fuel to empty petrol stations. Follow today’s news live</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p><strong>Barnaby Joyce calls for fuel rationing, saying a ‘plan is better than panic’</strong></p><p>One Nation MP <strong>Barnaby Joyce</strong> 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.</p><p>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 …</p><p><strong>[The government] should be having rationing now,</strong> 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. <strong>A plan is better than panic, and panic is where we’re going.</strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/mar/26/australia-politics-live-penny-wong-iran-united-nations-war-fuel-crisis-cost-of-living-parliament-question-time-anthony-albanese-angus-taylor-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>