The announcements of the closures of two of Australia’s fuel refineries, Kwinana near Perth and Altona in Victoria, failed to sound alarm bells of a looming national fuel security crisis.
A very wise axiom of G.K. Chesterton (1929) goes: “Never pull a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up in the first place.”
Chesterton reasoned that a fence existed because someone had determined it was a good thing to have it at that place; consequently, until one establishes the re…
