Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

In 2021, Senator Hanson warned that Australia's fuel supply was dangerously low and no provisions had been made to increase storage. In 2022, I repeated the warning and set out a policy to fix our supply, which was: build more fuel storage in Australia; bring more fuel tankers under Australian ownership to guarantee in a crisis they'll deliver to Australia, not to the highest bidder; reduce red, green and blue tape, allowing producers to produce and explorers to explore while protecting critical environments; and increase refining capacity, with gas-to-fuel plants to harness our natural advantage in gas—we're bringing a bill to the Senate on Thursday to facilitate this new industry; and halve the fuel excise, cutting 22 cents a litre. With new refining capacity and better reserves, you'd expect fuel reductions around 50c a litre. Had One Nation been in government in 2021, we would have fixed our fuel supply. Instead, the Liberal-Labor unity party did nothing and simply hid the looming crisis.