Justin Pyvis.

Trump chickened out, markets rallied, and global consumers are left footing the bill for a new toll in the Strait of Hormuz.

If you wanted to ease pressure on fuel prices, free public transport would be near the bottom of the list.

Albanese is framing a foundational principle of prosperity as a policy failure because it makes a convenient origin story for the intervention he already wanted.

State Premiers are performing generosity with a GST windfall that doesn't exist, adding to debt and stoking inflation at the worst possible time.

Australia's fuel reserves are thin, but they aren't the reason you're paying more at the pump.

Almost every proposed response to Australia's fuel crisis would make it worse.

The RBA spent 2025 fuelling a fire it now lacks the credibility to extinguish.

When your political strategy relies on a version of the economy that hasn't existed since 1960, a historic bloodbath is the only logical outcome.

The biggest risk for Australia isn't the oil shock itself but that the urge to "do something" worsens the situation before the crisis is resolved.

Australia's current oil crisis is a race between a rapid global supply response and the domestic urge to 'do something' that inevitably makes the situation worse.