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

I thank my honourable friend for the question. Whether it is liquid fuels in petrol or diesel, or in electricity, we enter this international crisis, which the visiting chief executive of the International Energy Agency has said is the worst we have ever faced today, better prepared than ever before. We certainly have that as the case when it comes to liquid fuels. On Saturday, we updated our supply figures to show that there are 38 days worth of petrol and 30 days worth of diesel and jet fuel in Australia, as we speak—held in Australia, where the Australian strategic reserve should be.

So we were able to release some of that in relation to diesel and petrol on the condition that it flows to regional Australia. And more than 500 million litres is flowing to regional Australia as we speak—

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