Senate debates
Monday, 23 March 2026
Questions without Notice
Fuel
2:45 pm
Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source
I will provide more information on that question if I can. I can certainly tell you that that is something that has only recently become clear. What we will see over the coming weeks and months, depending upon how long the crisis in the Middle East goes for, is two things happening. Firstly, up until recently all of the ships that were coming to Australia were on target, on time. We will see, like we have just seen, a number of deferrals and a number of cancellations—six out of 81. You'll also see the government undertaking the action that it has been undertaking in consultation with our partners in the region to make sure we are swapping in fuel capacity when that is possible. That's why you have a minimum stockholding obligation, to provide resilience precisely in— (Time expired)
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