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

I thank the honourable member for his question. As the government has made crystal clear in recent days and weeks, every expected delivery of fuel has arrived on schedule to this point. We have also made crystal clear at every opportunity that there has been uncertainty from mid to late April onwards. That's been consistent. That has been consistent in every single statement we've made.

As the Prime Minister has indicated, we're in constant contact: I have spoken to the chief executives of Ampol and Viva every day, in effect, and sometimes several times a day—

The chief executives of the two refineries in Australia have been advising me of the uncertainty from mid-April onwards. They have also advised me more recently of the six cancellations—which is still the current number—and several of those have been replaced with new sources, as I said very transparently on Insiders yesterday and hid away in an interview on the ABC. Six out of the 81 expected deliveries over that time have been cancelled or deferred and have now, at least to some degree, been replaced with new supply.

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