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Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast What’s the trigger for stage three under the national plan?

The energy minister, Chris Bowen, says we’re still on stage two of the national plan agreed to at yesterday’s national cabinet, reiterating that so far any cancelled fuel shipments have been replaced (he’s referring to the six tankers that he announced were cancelled on 22 March).

The trigger … says ongoing supply disruptions mean we will focus on getting fuel where it’s needed most.

Now, ongoing supply disruptions really means the fuel supply to Australia has been impacted.

That hasn’t happened.

Early on in this conflict, I reached out to counterparts in the region who are our primary suppliers of liquid fuels … I reached out to Korea, to Singapore, to Malaysia, but we’ll continue to do that.

We believe we’re reliable, and we ask for reliability in return.

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原文链接: The Guardian