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

Diesel has just hit $3.20 in Warrnambool in my electorate and in regional and rural towns right across Australia. We have people ringing in to talkback shows, saying that they're scared to drive by service stations—scared because of the price and scared because they're worried there might not be fuel in those service stations. They want to see national leadership, because this is a national crisis. They want to see an end to the politics and the endless negativity from the government on this issue. They do not want to see a government that in a national crisis blames everyone else for the issues and takes no responsibility for what is occurring around this nation.

The government is being dragged kicking and screaming into having to take action, yet we are still not seeing action. Here is the Prime Minister walking in now. I say this to the Prime Minister: your backchat, your negativity, isn't working. People want to see national leadership from you, and they want to see it now.