Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

'We obviously have reserve supplies.' That is what the member for Page had to say. They're still, at this stage, sitting on the front bench. Who knows where they'll be when we come back?

Honourable members interjecting—

The bubble! Those opposite suggest that I'm talking about them; they just talk about themselves. In a week in which they've knocked off another leader, they suggest that we're talking about internals.

The minister has said this on the minimum stockholding obligation: petrol, 36 days; jet fuel, 29 days; diesel, 32 days. And what others have said, what others have deemed as the minimum level depending on the field type, is this. Twenty-four days for petrol; we've got 36. Twenty-four days for jet fuel; we've got 29. And 28 days for diesel; we've got 32. That's what this bloke said when he was the energy minister.

According to the Leader of the Opposition, we not only are delivering—

Opposition members interjecting—

Yesterday they asked a question. They came to the dispatch box and asked, 'When will the war end?' Today, they come to the dispatch box and ask, 'Is there a crisis?' There is a war in the Middle East. It is having an impact. And if those opposite want to wish it away and pretend that it's not happening, then what they show is that they are simply unfit not only to be a government, not only to be an alternative government—no wonder they're barely in opposition and being led by the bloke up in the corner!

Honourable members interjecting—

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