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

I thank my honourable friend for the question and for the wonderful work she does for the people of Macquarie on so many levels. On Saturday, as I do on every Saturday now, I released the minimum stockholding obligation updated figures so the Australian people can see how much petrol, diesel and jet fuel we have in Australia. Those figures show 39 days' worth of petrol at 1.6 billion litres, 30 days of diesel at 2.7 billion litres and 30 days of jet fuel at about 800 million litres. What that tells me is that although our refiners and our importers are delivering fuel to regional Australia in particular at record levels, the fuel also continues to arrive in Australia and be refined in Australia. Viva, for example, which is the refinery in Geelong has advised me today that their deliveries to regional Australia in the last week are 55 per cent higher than normal. That's a good thing. They are prioritising deliveries direct to distributors who go to farmers and who go to those who are involved in agriculture, and that's a good thing. There's a lot more work to do.

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