As diesel prices surge, freight operators face mounting pressure, highlighting the urgent need for immediate support and a longer-term shift to electrified transport.

Voters may not blame Anthony Albanese for Donald Trump’s foolish decision to whack their access to fuel. But they do expect him to fix it.

The trucking sector is right to be frustrated at the time it is taking for promised government support to be delivered to freight operators with urgency when their diesel bills now hitting their inboxes have doubled in a month.

But Angus Taylor and Matt Canavan, members of a government which bent over backwards to sabotage electrification, are being deliberately and dangerously disingenuous when they dangle suggestions before truckers that economically viable reserves of oil would be available if only we would start drilling.

The fact is that Canavan, when he was Resources Minister, issued exploration licences for the Great Australian Bight. But the licences were handed back because the companies found it geologically too........

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