Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Darmanin for the question. Australians can have confidence in Australia's fuel security, because we have taken the action we needed to take to improve the situation from what we inherited. When we came to government, we had seen the closure of four of Australia's six fuel refineries, and Australia's emergency fuel supplies were located in Texas.

The coalition closed refineries; we've kept them open. The coalition stored emergency fuel on another continent; we are storing it here. The coalition talked about minimum stockholding obligations; we have implemented them. And the coalition talked about low-carbon-liquid fuels, like ethanol; we are investing in them. They've also voted against our coal and gas price caps and energy bill relief for Australians. The decisions we have made in the last term and over the last few years have put us in a much stronger position to deal with some of the pressures that we have seen flow out of the conflict in the Middle East.