Cutting fuel to Australia ‘won’t happen’, says Singapore PM, as Albanese secures pledge from our largest petrol source

Australia and Singapore will ‘make maximum efforts to meet each other’s energy security needs’ in refined fuels and LNG, according to new agreement Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s largest petrol source has pledged not to cut supplies, with Singapore’s prime minister telling Anthony Albanese that fuel will keep flowing despite the international crisis. Albanese’s whistle-stop visit with his Singaporean counterpart, Lawrence Wong, culminated in a new agreement that the two countries would keep sending one another fuel and liquefied natural gas, amid the “acute energy crisis” caused by the war in the Middle East. Australia and Singapore will also add a legally binding addendum to their free trade agreement on essential supplies like energy. While the visit to Singapore didn’t lead to any immediate announcements of extra fuel supplies coming to Australia – a fact quickly seized on by the Coalition opposition – the government said the visit would help secure fuel supplies. “We do not plan to restrict exports. We didn’t have to do so even in the darkest days of Covid, and we will not do so during this energy crisis,” Won