Angie Bell (Moncrieff, Liberal National Party, Shadow Minister for Youth) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, and I note his previous answer about the almost 500 service stations that have run dry. This morning Queensland Premier David Crisafulli said: 'All we're after is a national plan to make sure that there's visibility of where fuel is flowing because it's a crisis and it does need action.' When will the minister take action to ensure fuel gets to where it's needed?

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

This government has been taking action, and we've released, as I just outlined, 757 million litres from the minimum stock obligation on the condition that it flows. Some of the undertakings given to us under that will see flow to Toowoomba and the Darling Downs, to those areas affected by flooding; more fuel for local councils in the Atherton Tablelands and Mareeba; more allocations to support Indigenous communities and get fuel up to Cape York—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The member for Groom and the member for Fisher will not interject any more during this answer; otherwise, they won't be here.

The member for Forrest can join them as well. Do not interject. There is just too much noise. This is information that the member for Moncrieff, I assume, wants to be read into the Hansard and has the opportunity to do, and the minister is responding directly. Everyone just calm down and just listen to the minister without this incessant interjecting for no reason at all.

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