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

Thank you, Senator Polley. Where there is this rationing behaviour from some petroleum retailers, it is because of a spike in purchases. As I relayed, the Australian Institute of Petroleum said:

AIP members have sufficient fuel supply to meet our normal customer fuel demand.

There are some people in our political system who want to seek political profit from a national challenge. Our approach is to act in the national interest, to continue to build our fuel security and to continue to communicate in a reliable and transparent way. Their focus is to try to hype up the misinformation machine and hope to get a political result. Will they ever learn? (Time expired)