Zoe McKenzie (Flinders, Liberal Party, Shadow Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, and I refer to the national fuel crisis. How many service stations in Australia have run out of fuel?

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

I thank the honourable member for the question. I have these figures, state by state. In New South Wales at the moment, there are 37, out of a total of 2,444 service stations. In Queensland, there are 47 outlets with no diesel and 32 with no regular unleaded, out of just over 1,800 service stations. In Victoria at the end of last week, we saw 109 outlets with one or more grades unavailable—that is how the Victorian government collects that information—and today's update is that around 50 stations are out of diesel. I have further updates for Western Australia, more by supplier than by service station, and I am pleased to say—and I've been speaking to some Western Australian members opposite about this—that we are seeing more fuel flow in Western Australia and those numbers come down.