Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrived in Singapore this week with a look of desperation usually reserved for a man trying to enter Zouk at 3 AM with no guestlist.

Sources say Albanese spent his "flying visit" essentially vibrating with anxiety, hoping Lawrence Wong would grant him enough petrol to keep Australia from returning to the Mad Max era.

"Please, mate, just a liter of 95," Albanese reportedly whispered while stroking a storage tank on Jurong Island with more affection than he shows his own cabinet.

PM Wong, maintaining the chill of a man who knows he owns the only working lighter in a room full of smokers, reminded the Australian leader that this isn't a charity.

"We like you, Anthony, but the meter is running," Wong said, while casually checking his watch as the Australian dollar plummeted in the background.

The deal ensures Australia won't descend into a dystopian wasteland where people ride kangaroos to work, provided they keep sending Singapore enough LNG to keep our air-conditioning at a crisp 18 degrees Celsius.

Sky News Australia slammed the trip, noting that their PM looked less like a world leader and more like a tourist trying to negotiate the price of a fake Rolex at Lucky Plaza.

Despite the "win-win" rhetoric, everyone knows Australia is now just a very large, very dusty vassal state of Jurong Island.