Andrew Willcox (Dawson, Liberal National Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Manufacturing and Sovereign Capability) Share this | Hansard source

The bowser is the new barometer of Labor's failure, and right now the needle is screaming the red, with fuel hitting $3 a litre. The lucky country is staring down the inflation inferno that experts warn will soon exceed five per cent. Instead of real action, this government has issued an impotent instruction to the ACCC that hasn't saved one single cent at the pump.

But the carnage doesn't stop there. The government says there isn't a supply chain issue. I want to know who this government has been talking to. In Dawson the tanks are already running dry. Businesses like anything environmental normally receive 20,000 litres overnight. Now, owner Jason told me he has been waiting nine days. He's also been told he can only get half of his usual delivery, and it still hasn't arrived.

When the diesel stops, the regions stop. We've heard in this chamber many times that the Albanese Labor government has been pouring fuel on the inflation fire. Now that the fuel is running low and the Australian dream is being reduced to ash, this government must end the economic arson, prevent the profiteering at the pump and stop torching the nation's economic future.

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