Scott Buchholz (Wright, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

People are going to be paying less for their fuel because this opposition brought into the chamber and started the debate on having a look at the reduction in fuel excise. I'm proud to be part of an opposition that started the debate, that led that debate and that brought it into the chamber, and now the government has acted on it.

I think Australians are sick of us having our conversations across the chamber. We come in and we talk about how many fuel bowsers are empty around the country. They come in and talk about: 'Nothing to see here. We're doing an excellent job, and the Australian public should be proud of the Australian Labor Party.' I think the frustration at the bowser is them blaming both of us—they want resolutions. The Australian public just want us to fix a problem that they know was not brought about by any debate in this chamber. It's been brought about by factors across the seas in the Middle East.

But what we do need to get our act together on is making sure that as a country we are resilient into the future—that we are resilient when it comes to being able to keep fuel in the bowsers for our farmers to create the food we need and to being able to keep open our manufacturing plants, particularly for fertiliser and for AdBlue. And, if those plants don't exist, we need to enter into crisis talks immediately to make sure that our country gets the service it deserves from both of us.