Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Chisholm again. I am sure that Senator Chisholm does not want to see the Incitec Pivot factory close. Nor do I. We want to try and make sure there is a future for fertiliser manufacturing in this country, and last year we made the announcement about the Australian domestic gas security mechanism at Incitec Pivot's manufacturing facilities on Gibson Island. I believe it's the only facility in the country that produces urea, an important input to farming. We want to see that continue. I have spoken to gas producers in only the last few weeks about what options might be able to help Incitec Pivot maintain and access gas for the long term. But can I say that, if we want to keep that there for the long term, we need some of these state and territory Labor governments to allow gas to be produced in this country, not to have a situation like in Victoria, where they have a moratorium on conventional use of gas, or the Northern Territory, where they're sitting on potentially game-changing gas resources and have not done anything in the year and a half they have been in government. We need long-term supplies of gas to guarantee manufacturing in this country.