House debates

Wednesday, 25 March 2026

Questions without Notice

Fuel

2:21 pm

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

We've arranged for more allocations to support Indigenous communities and to get fuel up to Cape York and the farming communities around Cairns and Townsville. We've prioritised key refuelling sites for long-distance transport and extra bulk-volume deliveries for families in Queensland.

Interestingly, one of the towns that's been specifically identified for extra deliveries in Queensland is the town of Texas in Queensland. We're sending fuel to Texas; others had a plan to get fuel from Texas in a crisis. If we still had our fuel stocks still in Texas, we couldn't have done this. We couldn't have made this delivery because the fuel would still be on its way from America.

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