Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

As I indicated, I can tell you what we are doing. We have more fuel security today than we've had for 15 years. We've committed to a national gas reservation scheme to shore up supply and place downward pressure on prices, particularly for Australian industry. We've published the Future Gas Strategy and introduced a mandatory gas code of conduct. We've strengthened and extended the Australian Domestic Gas Security Mechanism, and we renewed it when the opposition failed to. We've granted additional licences. We are taking every step that could reasonably be taken. I point out, Senator, that it's a little bit odd to pretend to care about fuel security and then campaign against electric vehicles as a singular obsession. It's an odd thing to do. Australian energy from Australian resources going straight into Australian cars—what could be more Australian than that? (Time expired)