Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. How many service stations in Australia are currently out of fuel?

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

I might do it state by state, territory by territory. In New South Wales, there are 187 with no diesel and 32 without any stock at all. That's down 19 on yesterday. That's out of a total of 2,417 service stations in New South Wales. Queensland figures remain 55 with no diesel and 35 with no regular unleaded. In Victoria, there are 134 with a lack of one or more grades. That's down 28 on the last report. South Australia has 49 out of 700. Western Australia remains at six with a total stock-out and four with no diesel, out of 771 service stations. Tasmania—it remains my advice—has one with no diesel and six with no unleaded. In the Northern Territory, the advice remains the same—that there are no shortages as a result of fuel shortage. As I said yesterday, the Northern Territory is in the grip of a natural disaster, and, of course, there are impacts on service stations, with access and roads. In the ACT, there is currently one service station with no diesel, but my advice is that the service stations with no diesel in the ACT are normally having that rectified in a matter of hours.