Prime minister Anthony Albanese has reassured Australians that fuel supplies will hold as panic buying sent demand surging by up to 400 per cent in some parts of the country, emptying service stations, and pushing prices to their highest levels in years.
He said on Friday that Australia's supply of petrol, diesel and oil would be "the same, if not higher, than it normally would be", with six tankers of jet fuel from China due to arrive between Saturday and 8 April.
