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Petrol prices

May 2026

  • Frank Black in his truck

    Australia’s truckies were already struggling to survive. Then the fuel crisis hit

  • 'Even when there wasn't a fuel crisis, there was always slim margins in trucking,' says Frank, a truck driver who has spent 40 years on the road

    Trucking in a fuel crisis: the Australian drivers sacrificing their paycheck for diesel – video

    Video9:23
  • Adam Morton

    The BHP files
    double quotation markAustralian taxpayers subsidise Big Mining’s use of fossil fuel to the tune of $4bn a year. It’s a strange way to tackle emissions

    Adam Morton
  • A truck carrying coal, split with a green colour and black smoke.

    The BHP files
    BHP defies its own climate strategy to spend hundreds of millions on polluting diesel trucks in Pilbara

  • Australian government plans for ‘worst-case scenario’ retail fuel rationing, documents reveal

  • Trump’s Middle East war could push Australia to cusp of recession, budget warns

  • Budget 2026 Australia: Jim Chalmers goes for broke in federal budget facing twin threats of housing pain and Iran war disaster

  • The global energy shock is driving people to EVs, solar and batteries. What renewables subsidies are available in Australia?

  • Full Story
    The Sunday read: Paul Daley on going the distance in an EV – Full Story podcast

    Podcast06:12

April 2026

  • Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to the media

    Guardian Essential poll: Australians want higher tax on gas exports and extension of petrol excise cut

  • A crowd of shoppers in a Sydney mall

    Inflation jumps to 4.6% in Australia as Iran war fuel shock begins to bite

  • Peter Lewis

    The Guardian Essential report
    double quotation markThe fuel crisis is about to whack Australia. Jim Chalmers’ budget must tread a fine line between panic and preparation

    Peter Lewis
  • Vampire map for fuel interactive

    The Vampire index: where Australia’s fuel crisis is biting the hardest

  • ‘You can see why I love this car’: even amid a fuel crisis some Australian drivers can fill up for $60

  • Cheap spirits, pricey condoms: how war in the Middle East is shifting the way Australians spend

  • Takeaway coffee sales plunge as fuel and living costs dent Australian spending. Is the economy next?

  • Victoria made public transport free in April – but is that enough to change behaviour?

  • Australia ‘prepared to provide assistance’ in the strait of Hormuz, PM says, as ‘fragile’ opening expected to ease fuel prices

  • Albanese’s visits to key allies have borne early fruits of fuel and fertiliser but ‘resilience’ is on the budget agenda

  • Fuel prices fall despite Geelong refinery blaze as Albanese says facility production has slipped by 40%

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