Convicted gang rapist Michael Angok has been arrested in Sydney's west five days after escaping custody from Bankstown Hospital.

Before his arrest, police "observed a pair of shoes" belonging to Angok outside a property and set up a crime scene.

He has been refused bail and is due to appear at Blacktown Local Court on Monday.

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NSW Police have been criticised for heavy-handed arrest of a protester who attended the anti-Isaac Herzog protest in February, with eight heavily armoured officers breaking down the woman’s door at 5am on Thursday morning.

A powerful tropical cyclone in Western Australia has disrupted production at the ‌country's two biggest liquefied natural gas plants run by Chevron and Woodside, exacerbating a global supply crunch caused by the conflict in the Middle East.

More than 650 venues in NSW will need to close their gaming machines, or pokies, between 4am and 10am each day in reforms announced by the NSW Government.

Meanwhile, Australians are starting to vote with their wallets. February saw record EV sales, with battery-electric vehicles taking an 11.8% share of new car sales — up from about 8.4% in January.

Online listings platform Carsales last week reported a 76.7% spike in searches for EVs after the outbreak of the war in Iran.

He blames panic buying for the fuel crunch we have seen in Australia in recent weeks.

He says he would normally distribute 10 million litres a week, but last week he did more than 13 million litres.

"Sales have increased by about 40 per cent and it's going to put a real pressure on our stock that we hold in the ground," he said.

"With diesel, we're putting a truckload in, and by the time we turn around and go back, the truckload is gone the next day."

Most of the oil South Korea refines for sale to Australia comes from the Middle East.

That includes Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman. More than a third of Singapore's oil is sourced from Arab nations. In 2024, Australia imported $7 billion of crude oil.

But very little of that is coming from the Strait of Hormuz.

The largest chunk of oil comes from Malaysia, based on 2024 data. More comes from Vietnam, Brunei and the United States.

Only six per cent comes from the UAE. No other Arab states sold oil directly to Australia that year.

Australia also exports almost as much crude oil as it imports.

Bowen said he had cut fuel companies’ minimum stock obligations to about 700m litres of petrol and 2.2bn litres of diesel respectively, freeing up about 300m and 500m respectively to be directed towards regional Australia.