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Fuel security: time to take action

GEOFF CROUCH chairs the Australian Trucking Association

The move to establish Australia’s emergency fuel reserve in the United States is a serious strategic error.

Liquid fuel is critical to trucking and critical for our economy. Without trucks and the fuel that powers them, Australia stops.

Last month, Minister

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