Anthony Albanese to urge Australians to ‘play their part’ in Iran response in TV address
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-01/anthony-albanese-address-to-nation-fuel-iran-war-mid-east/106520468?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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Then perhaps announce a WFH “if you can, please do” mandate?? These businesses are not going to call it out of the goodness of their hearts
Can’t play my part unless we’re allowed to WFH mate. I’m not sitting on a bus 50min both ways to work when my car will get me there in 20, while I also need to juggle school drop off and pick up and grocery shopping. So get fucked.
My part is paying taxes so that you can run this country properly.
Do your part in making us not so reliant on fuel that we basically collapse within weeks of it being limited. Fucking hell.
The way we had been treating this fuel crisis is a bit like how Larry Vaughn had kept the beaches open in the movie Jaws when there was a dangerous shark in the ocean.
Does that include Australian billionaires? How are they gonna chip in
Mate, I don’t own a car..and I already WFH 2 days a week. Guess, I’ll start growing my own fruit and vegetables from my high-rise apartment that I’m mortgaged up to the tits on. Oh wait…I can’t afford fertiliser.
Play our part to enable a billionaire pedophile’s war in the Middle East.
it is April Fool’s day after all
I don’t hold a tomahawk missile, mate
We better not be coming to the aid of Trump and his nutters. World’s powerful military can’t even retake a shipping lane. That’s not our beef.
Especially after the lunatic spent months demonising all other militaries for not coming to their aid, when literally history is full of the bodies and sacrifices that prove him wrong.
Hell he doesn’t even understand NATO is a defence pack!
Just do rationing already. In two years no one will complain about rationing happening too early. They will be complaining if we ran out of reserves. Asian refinaries are down to 40% we need to reduce our usage.
It’s inevitable so just rip the bandaid off so we can save some of our fuel reserves.
I’m just a girl, standing in front of a prime minister, asking for two weeks of work at home.
The fuck’s that mean? I don’t want any part of this Iran nonsense.
a prime-time presser simulcast across the nation? it’s gotta be something worth announcing, i.e. measures that will actually help us like mandated WFH (where possible) and/or fuel rationing. either that or we’re about to join Trump’s war…
Mandate WFH and drag the premiers who oppose it kicking and screaming to the table. Looking at *you*, Minns.
This will be the easiest and most effective way of cutting down demand for fuel, especially in the cities. Will also save many people a fairly decent chunk of money.
Oh – and tax the gas exports. And mining exports. And the multinational corporations.
A national address is never good news lol
If I hear “we are all in this together”……..
Wasn’t it just last week he saying there was no problem so they didn’t have to mandate WFH? Now we’re supposed to be “doing our part”?
Play our part when those paedophile cunts in the states started all this? Fuck off
Can’t work from home, instead of driving I’m catching the train 2.5 hours each way to work. I’m doing my part, I guess.
Gas and mining companies will also play their part? Or since 86% of them belong to overseas owners – they won’t be playing anything?
4 day work week and wfh mandate when?
I’ll play my part by avoiding buying US products as much as possible.
So Trump has gone full toddler mode and is threatening to take Kharg Island and not give any oil to the countries that don’t want to join in his stupid war?
Hey Albo, if you want me to “save fuel” tell my fucking employer to let me WFH
Money is on fuel rationing, WFH (i dont want to say mandates – but definitely strong encouragement).
The gas tax maybe?
I feel this is going to get worse before it gets batter 😟😫
I will proudly call DT a dumb cunt for starting this war, I’m doing my part. Ala starship troopers
Might be a good reason to give those states a long weekend for Anzac Day that were denied by their Premiers 😜
I hope everyone who can’t work from home is labled a “hero” again.
Makes it so much easier paying $4 ltr when the PM calls me that.
People keep saying that after the response to COVID lockdowns, he won’t pull the trigger on WFH mandates.
But that fundamentally ignores that this is a completely seperate situation.
How hard is it for him to say ‘you have to work or study from home three days a week but – go to your local pub, cafe or restaurant. Go to your local shops. Meet up with friends and neighbours in the area and socialise. There’s no need to be locked inside and isolated, just limit the amount you use your car’.
Maybe just tell the USA to fuck off out of the rest of the world and get their house in order.
Did Albo really just drop the relationship equivalent of “we need to talk” to the nation on April fools or do I need more coffee to process this.
I feel like I’m being called into a meeting with no agenda which is never a good feeling
If I were a conspiratorial sort I’d say that the government have gotten some advice from one of the orgs who go bump in the night (either ours or allied) that Trump is going to commence a land invasion over the Easter weekend when the markets are closed.
Albo now knows this is going to get worse and he needs to set the groundwork for future work from home and future fuel rationing, knowing that it’s all going to go straight to shit and be required in the coming weeks.
You there, citizen. Absorb more pain. Pay more on the mortgage, more at the bowser. Do it for Bibi and Donald
Every Australian should boycott US products, services and travel. They’ve cut off our essential fuel supplies and essentially declared war on the rules based order. They are the enemy. .