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Us-Mideast Coalition Pressure

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 2 May 2026

This podcast features Shane Jones discussing fuel supply challenges, regional council policies, mining strategy, and media relations, framing them through a nationalist, resource-safety lens with strong criticism of perceived ideological overreach and institutional failures.

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  • He is the Minister of digging it up and damming it up, Matua Shane Jones. He's also the Minister of Full Resources. We are going to talk about the fuel situation and how we can get a solution to that. We're also going to have a look at the wokeery at the Otago Regional Council. But first, Shane Jones, the serious issue of the day as Minister of Resources. I see that Trump has now asked us to join a US-led coalition to open the Strait of Hamoos. What do you think about that? It was inevitable that we're casualties, as you know, feedstock meant to come through that straight, servicing all the refineries in Southeast Asia which deliver us our refined fuel. But no, there'll be a deep dive and a pretty searching discussion amongst us as the members of the coalition before we publicly announce how we're going to respond to that.
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the-country Government / N-A

a strategic threat to fuel security and sovereignty

The Country 01/05/26: Shane Jones talks to Jamie Mackay
1 May
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