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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Josh Butler

As Labor faces pressure to respond boldly to oil shock, it needs to find more unconventional levers to pull

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during Question Time
The Albanese government is ‘quietly considering ways to exert leverage on the countries that buy our resources – gas, coal and more – in order to guarantee our oil supplies in future,’ writes Josh Butler. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The International Energy Agency suggested Australia reduce road speed limits, restrict car use in big cities and encourage more working from home in a bid to nullify what it called the “greatest threat to global energy supply in the history of the world”.

They won’t be the only interesting or offbeat ideas raised in federal parliament this week, as the Albanese government comes under pressure to find fixes – short-term and long-term – to the oil shocks seeing more bowsers run dry across the nation.

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