Making preparations

March 31, 2026

Australia’s well known reliance on diesel fuel for long haul transportation and, its remote location at the end of global supply chains has me wondering what governments of all persuasions have been doing in recent years?

Surely, with the advent of Covid, the global shocks of the Ukraine War and the increasingly erratic, shoot from the hip style politics coming out of Washington would have been red flags for someone in Canberra that we need to “war game” a range of catastrophic scenarios so if one does, God forbid, occur, there is a national blue print that can be immediately implemented by all levels of government?

It might be an old fashioned idea but plans work because people have had the time to think all the contingencies through without being under pressure. In times of increasing uncertainty it does seem sensible to me to have some detailed plans in place around areas such as fuel, water and food security.