by DAVID FLINT – AS ONE Nation rises in the polls, the overwhelming criticism from Liberal MPs – and a vast phalanx of the commentariat – is that “Pauline’s Party is without policy”.
For years, the Canberra establishment has dismissed Senator Hanson’s warnings as “populist noise”.
- When it comes to the real story about climate catastrophism, just follow the money.
- We are now witnessing a “food security crisis”.
- Albanese is silent with Australians eating bugs – and dirt.
The fact is that almost all of what One Nation has proposed has been ignored or blocked.
When it comes to ensuring we’re not in the position we are now in – facing shortages resulting from the Iranian mullahs’ determination to destroy the world rather than be defeated – One Nation has been the Party which would have left Australia in a far better position than the Liberal/Labor UniParty.
BARE
As the Mullahs deliberately choke global energy routes in March 2026, the truth is being laid bare: One Nation is the only Party that has spent the past decade putting a “sovereign survival plan” in writing.
This isn’t a reactive platform; it has been a 10-year crusade that the major Parties have systematically blocked.
Meanwhile Labor and Labor-lite – the Coalition controlled by the apparatchiks and the self-styled “moderates” – decided on another suicide note additional to their one on net-zero: “just-in-time” fuel from Asian refineries.
At the same time, they endorsed what Donald Trump exposed as “one of the greatest scams in history”.
As I’ve long said, when it comes to the real story about climate catastrophism, just follow the money.
So, when it comes to protecting Australians from fuel shortages, what are the requirements imposed by treaty and plain common sense?
Australia is a signatory to the International Energy Agency (IEA) treaty, requiring 90 days of fuel imports in reserve. One Nation has consistently pointed out that we have failed this mandate since 2012.
While the major Parties count fuel currently on tankers in the middle of a war zone as “reserves”, One Nation has demanded 90 days of physical, onshore stock.
They argue that fuel sitting in America (as part of the 2020 deal) is useless when the tankers to bring it home are under fire in the Strait of Hormuz.
In mid-March 2026, Australia is scraping by with just 26 days of petrol and 32 days of diesel. This is a systemic collapse of foresight.
Because the major Parties allowed domestic manufacturing to fail, prices have soared past $1500 a tonne.
As One Nation Senator Tyron Whitten noted in the Senate this week, we are witnessing a “food security crisis” where farmers may be forced to put down livestock because they can’t find the diesel to feed them nor the fertiliser to grow lucerne.
Our dismissive and “calm” Energy Minister Chris Bowen has pivoted to panic.
On March 13, 2026, the government announced an emergency release of 800m litres and a 20 per cent relaxation of stockholding rules.
COSMETIC
Now we have had the cosmetic solution: a session of the next-to-useless “National Cabinet”, which proved such a disaster with COVID that we still haven’t had the Royal Commission to show what was wrong with that.
Their solution is to relax fuel quality standards, allowing higher-sulphur petrol into the market. This is a confession that the major Party’s have no plan for a “full tank” – only a plan for lesser failure.
Between 2003 and 2021, six major refineries closed under the collective watch of Labor and the Coalition. One Nation was the lone voice warning that “offshoring” our refining to Singapore was a strategic suicide note.
These closure ensued:-
- Port Stanvac (2003 – Coalition)
- Clyde (2012 – Labor)
- Kurnell (2014 – Coalition)
- Bulwer Island (2015 – Coalition)
- Kwinana (2021 – Coalition)
- Altona (2021 – Coalition)
On March 12, 2026, One Nation moved to urgently debate their fuel security bill.
Labor and the Coalition joined forces to block the debate.
One Nation has been attempting to put Australia in a secure position for more than ten years through specific, written policies.
It introduced Domestic Gas Reserve Bills in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and again this month. They argue for a 15 per cent reservation to ensure our own resources aren’t shipped offshore while we starve at home. If there are two fuels we are not short of, it’s gas and coal.
One Nation is the only Party promoting Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) and Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) technology.
ABUNDANT
Their plan involves building modular plants (costing $250-500m) to convert our abundant gas and coal into synthetic diesel and petrol.
Technically, coal conversion is a proven industrial process used globally (such as by Sasol in South Africa).
Economically, with oil prices hitting $2.50 per litre during this conflict, producing our own “synfuel” for a target price of $1.50 per litre is not just viable – it’s essential.
Federal One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts, with his deep background in the coal industry – including as a miner – has long championed this “sovereign energy” approach to make Australia self-sufficient.
But the lazy Left never listen..PC
