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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Kris Swales

Afternoon Update: Labor hoses down fuel supply concerns; cyclone batters WA coast; and the year’s first big snowfall

Customer pumping petrol at Melbourne station amid Australia's fuel crisis and shortages
A man fills his car with petrol at a Melbourne service station. Photograph: Ye Myo Khant/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

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The Albanese government has downplayed the prospect of any major restrictions on petrol sales, with Chris Bowen saying the supply of petrol and diesel and oil “will be the same, if not higher” than normal in the coming weeks.

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