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

There is, as I was trying to indicate, 32 days of diesel supply left in Australia—2.97 billion litres of diesel. Now, those amounts have not fundamentally changed since the conflict in Iran began.

What has changed, Senator Canavan—if you are going to join the yelling over there—is that there has been some consumer behaviour that has changed. Some consumers are purchasing, as reported to me in the meeting that was held recently, four to five times the amount of diesel or the amount of petrol. Why would people be engaging in that kind of conduct?