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Can Japan save us from a fuel crisis? · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from the Australian I'm Christinami it with
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  Speaker 1: the front's afternoon headlines. Japan says it could come to
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  Speaker 1: the rescue if Australia runs short on certain types of fuel.
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  Speaker 1: Japan's Ambassador to Australia, Kazahiro Suzuki, said Japan hasn't faulted
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  Speaker 1: on its exports as the conflict in the Middle East
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  Speaker 1: drags on. That's after Anthony Albanesi said he expects Australia's
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  Speaker 1: reliability as a partner in energy security to be reciprocated
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  Speaker 1: by several Asian countries, including Japan. Speaking at a conference
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  Speaker 1: in Canberra on Wednesday, Suzuki said Japan has about two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty days of fuel in its reserves and
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  Speaker 1: suggested a fuel for LNG swap could be on the
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  Speaker 1: cards if Australia supplies dwindle l and G is liquefied
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  Speaker 1: natural gas, and Japan is one of the biggest buyers
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  Speaker 1: of LNG produced in Australia. But the ambassador warned are
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  Speaker 1: planned by the Albanesi government to impose attacks on gas
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  Speaker 1: exports would be regarded as a bad surprise by Tokyo
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  Speaker 1: and could stem in Japan's ability to help in a
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  Speaker 1: fuel crisis. A day after relaxing Australia's diesel standards, Energy
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  Speaker 1: Minister Chris Bowen said rationing fuel to keep supplies up
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  Speaker 1: isn't on the government's agenda that says more than five
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  Speaker 1: hundred service stations run dry.
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  Speaker 2: There's a range of actions available to government. Rationing would
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  Speaker 2: be the absolute, you know, worst case, by our working
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  Speaker 2: with states on their powers, on our powers, how they
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  Speaker 2: work together, and the prude and contingency planning.
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  Speaker 1: A slew of government ministers, including Environment Minister Murray Watt,
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  Speaker 1: also kyboshed suggestions the government will introduce a temporary cap
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  Speaker 1: of forty dollars per day on fuel purchases.
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  Speaker 3: That comes from a document that was released by the
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  Speaker 3: then government in twenty nineteen and situations obviously changed between
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  Speaker 3: then twenty nineteen and twenty twenty six. We will continue
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  Speaker 3: to consider what options might be necessary in the future,
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  Speaker 3: but I can knock that one on the head before
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  Speaker 3: ty dollar fuel cap.
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  Speaker 1: Theory and executive claims he was following instructions when he
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  Speaker 1: accessed confidential documents belonging to the family office of Mike
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  Speaker 1: Cannon Brooks. Kevin Chu was sacked by canon Brooks in
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  Speaker 1: late twenty twenty four after the Atlasian co founder had
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  Speaker 1: discovered he'd accessed and shared the documents with a former
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  Speaker 1: colleague who worked for cannon Brooks's former wife, Annie. Mike
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  Speaker 1: cannon Brooks took Chu to court in twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: in an effort to recover the documents, and Chu is
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  Speaker 1: defending the claim In newly released court documents. Chu says
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  Speaker 1: he believed that under the terms of his contract, he
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  Speaker 1: was also employed by Annie cannon Brooks at that time
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  Speaker 1: and was following her instructions. Mike and Annie cannon Brooks
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  Speaker 1: split in twenty twenty three after thirteen years of marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Chu claims he never previously required prior written consent
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  Speaker 1: by Mike cannon Brooks to share documents with the tech
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  Speaker 1: mogul's former wife, and denies he breached his contract or
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  Speaker 1: engaged in serious misconduct. Thousands of ABC staff from bureaus
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  Speaker 1: across the country walked off the job for twenty four
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  Speaker 1: hours on Wednesday. They want an improved payoffer from management
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  Speaker 1: at the public broadcaster. The ABC's primary TV news channel,
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  Speaker 1: filled the gap in its regular programming with content from
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  Speaker 1: the BBC, while ABC Radio is running nationally syndicated programs
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  Speaker 1: across local stations for the duration of the strike. Check
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  Speaker 1: out those stories live right now at the Australian dot
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  Speaker 1: com dot au and come back to the front first
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  Speaker 1: thing in the morning for a close look at why
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  Speaker 1: a lack of packaging materials due to the Iran War
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  Speaker 1: could make everything more expensive.