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

Senator McGrath is usually funnier! Senator Canavan was a minister in that government. Now he's embarrassed and says that, if the states allowed more oil drilling, these refineries would not have closed. He is dead wrong. Geoscience Australia said Australia has limited conventional oil reserves that are being depleted at a faster rate than they are being replaced by new discoveries. As the new leader of the National Party, perhaps he could pick up the phone to the deputy leader of the National Party in the Senate, who sits diagonally opposite him, alongside the leader of the National Party in the Senate, because Senator McDonald does pay attention to some of these facts, rather than making up alternative facts— (Time expired)