Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

What we will continue to do is work with the sector. The group that we convene today will continue to convene weekly, which was the rhythm of meetings that was suggested by the peak groups that would be helpful to them. They know that they can contact any minister, including myself, at any time if there are any issues that they need our help to deal with. We'll also continue to convene the National Oil Supplies Emergency Committee, which every government—including Queensland—is represented on. The Deputy Premier of Queensland might want to acquaint himself with the fact that his officials have been involved in every meeting, and his officials agreed that the level of alert should be the lowest of the six possible when it comes to international petrol supply. Either the Deputy Premier doesn't know that, which is his negligence, or he is choosing to deliberately mislead the people of Queensland and, in effect, encourage panic buying, which means he is behaving abominably and irresponsibly.

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