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Apr 25 • 4 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
The Strategic Defence Review has highlighted fuel supply as a significant point of vulnerability and recommends creation of a national Fuel Council. The Govt has not agreed to this. Meantime #FOI documents shows our tanks are close to empty. 🧵1/4 #auspol #SNAFU Image
After BP and Mobil shut their refineries in 2021, we now import 77% of our refined fuel. Of the 33% locally refined fuel, 3/4 of its feedstock is imported. Minister Bowen’s most recent fuel security brief reveals we only have 22 days of diesel stored in-country. 🧵2/4 #auspol Image
In April 2020 we entered into a lease agreement with the US to store oil in their Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). We also purchased and put 1.7 million barrels of oil into the SPR. In June 2022 this reserve was quietly sold. Australia’s has no SPR fuel reserves. 🧵3/4 #auspol Image
Our refined fuel comes from Singapore, Korea, India, Malaysia, Japan and Taiwan. Our crude comes from Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam and the US. If there is conflict in East Asia, as is contemplated by Govt, we are vulnerable to complete economic and societal shut down. 🧵4/4 #auspol Image

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Nov 29, 2022
The Senate has just passed the #NACC Bill. It won’t be the blind and toothless corruption watchdog Morrison reluctantly proposed, but with public hearings only in “exceptional circumstances” it’ll be a watchdog with only one ear and rarely be seen outside its kennel. #auspol
Open hearings allow the public to see the allegations being investigated, the evidence, the counterfactuals, and most importantly, the conduct of counsel assisting and the Corruption Commissioner him or herself. They allow the public to be the scrutineers. #auspol
On the contrary, hearings shrouded in secrecy undermine the public’s confidence in the Commission and any findings and reports it may make.
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Aug 20, 2022
Since 1969 @dfat has exploited complicit and unwitting prime ministers & ministers from both sides of politics to defraud #TimorLeste of its oil & gas resource. DFAT's made the bed we now sadly have to lie in. All Aussies should read this thread! #auspol theguardian.com/world/2022/aug…
1969: Australia granted 5 petroleum exploration permits over parts of the seabed that lay closer to Portuguese-Timor than Australia … and then refused to talk to Portugal about a sea boundary, even after their 1970 formal protest about Australia's Timor Sea claim. #auspol Image
1975 - 1999: Alone in the world, and with the aim of accessing #TimorLeste’s oil & gas resources, Australia encouraged and lent support to Indonesia’s invasion of Timor, whose citizens preferred independence. 204,000 Timorese died opposing Indonesia’s occupation. #auspol Image
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Jun 8, 2022
.@PeterDutton_MP’s rationale for the unaffordable $171 billion #AUKUS program has enough holes in it to sink a submarine without the need for @AustralianLabor to torpedo it. 1/10 #auspol theaustralian.com.au/commentary/lab…
He starts by incorrectly boasting that “the US had only ever shared their nuclear sub­marine technology with the UK – and that was in 1958.” In the late 50’s the US offered nuke subs to the Dutch, Italians and Canadians who ultimately walked away from the US proposals. 2/10
He suggests “a diesel-electric submarine would not be able to compete against the Chinese in the South China Sea beyond 2035.” Japan, South Korea and Singapore, who are in the region, all use air independent propulsion (AIP) subs and clearly disagree. 3/10
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Oct 12, 2020
ICYMI: Nice work by @TheAusInstitute highlighting an increasing lack of #transparency in the Federal Budget with greater resorting to NFP "not for publication" references to keep info secret. This #secrecy cancer just keeps growing. #auspol #righttoknow tai.org.au/content/new-an…
. @TheAusInstitute highlights a few NFP examples including the costs of managing an abandoned oil rig formerly owned by Woodside; money for the controversial Inland Rail project and expenditure relating to Australia’s Export Finance and Insurance Corporation. All are secret.
There may be valid reasons for some budget details to be kept confidential, but NFP is resorted to with ever greater frequency. It would be a good thing if @ANAO_Australia were to conduct an audit of NFP decisions. But, surprise, surprise, the Auditor’s budget has been cut.
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Oct 12, 2020
1/4 The Senate FADT Committee is examining the Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Bill today. All States & Territories were invited to make submissions. Few have done so and invitations to appear before the Committee have been declined. Why? #auspol
2/4 State/Territory responses so far. NSW - No submission, invite declined; VIC - no sub, invite declined; QLD - no sub, not invited; ACT - sub made, not invited; TAS - sub made, not invited; SA - no sub, not invited; NT - sub pending, invite declined; WA - no sub, not invited.
3/4 States/Territories don’t want to talk about foreign influence. All have been competing for China trade $. VIC BRI agreement was just the most prominent deal. NT sold Darwin port. SA and others have been cuddling up to Chinese officials. All have neglected national interest.
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Apr 26, 2020
The #covidsafe App will be useful for public health and will save lives. However, there are still some areas of concern in relation to privacy that means whether YOU choose to download and use it is matter of YOUR circumstances #auspol
In the Australian hierarchy of legislation, a ‘Ministerial Determination’ (under an Act) would not override the provisions in an actual Act passed by the Parliament - e.g. such as the search warrants provisions of the Crimes Act #auspol #covidsafe
The #covidsafe app ‘Ministerial Determination’ was introduced at the stroke of a pen yesterday and @GregHuntMP has the discretion to change it tomorrow, or the next day, or at any time with another stroke of a pen #auspol
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