Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction) Share this | Hansard source

We support the suspension because this bill is necessary to ease the pain and suffering that Australians are feeling at this time. That pain and suffering is real. Every time they go to the bowser—and they'll be doing it a lot in the lead-up to Easter and the school holidays—they are reminded of the incompetence of this government and the appalling way that they have handled this. That's why we must suspend. The government have talked, in their National Fuel Security Plan, about the need to bring measures forward.

I'll finish on this note. This is the plan—three flimsy pages. When Australians are hurting and suffering, this is what the government came up with—three flimsy pages. This isn't a plan. This is a political document to get the government out of the mess that they're in. You should do better. We will keep leading on this. I hope you keep following our ideas. That's why we're supporting this suspension motion.

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