The explosion at the Esso plant gave her another excuse to attack the market, not that she really needs one. Naturally, she also used use the gas explosion to heap praise on her union heroes. Stating that the Australian Workers' Union issued a national hazards alert for petrochemical refineries. Well, if you name them all, you're bound to strike one. What happened at Esso was human error.
People are fallible.
They make mistakes. So blaming economic rationalism for Esso is like saying it would never happen under state control. I guess she forgot about Chernobyl and any number of other socialist disasters. But back to Australia. If I were to use her logic I would blame the Granville train accident, in which 20 or so people died, on state control.