National cabinet called twice in a fortnight because once wasn't enough

ABC News · Thursday 26 March 2026

National cabinet called twice in a fortnight because once wasn't enough

Albanese convenes a second emergency national cabinet as the Iran war's disruption to fuel supply chains forces states into crisis coordination mode, with the AFR reporting the government has resolved to be more transparent about the severity of the situation.

The second emergency meeting is the political equivalent of ringing the fire brigade twice — it means the first truck didn't bring enough hose. National cabinet was designed for crises nobody saw coming, not for the entirely predictable consequence of running a continent on imported fuel with no strategic reserve worth the name. They're not coordinating a response. They're coordinating the discovery that there isn't one.

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