I’ve been banging on about the energy crisis in Europe for some time and the implications this has for national security. It’s a message that has largely fallen on deaf ears in Australia – as well as in most other countries – until now

Had it not been for Europe’s dependence on Russian gas and, to a lesser extent, oil, it is difficult to believe that Vladimir Putin would have taken the drastic step of invading Ukraine and inviting the predictable suite of sanctions.