Dean Smith (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister to the Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Yesterday, as reported by the ABC, S-Bend service station, which is 30 kilometres south of Geraldton in my home state of Western Australia, ran out of diesel. They made an emergency fuel request, with employee Wendy Butterworth telling the ABC:

We had to really plead, to say that we're in the position where we're the only outlet that can supply fuel in the 60-kilometre radius.

She said the supplier was only able to provide half of what the fuel station needed. It will now be 'touch and go' if the allocation will last, she said. This is happening as families across regional Western Australia prepare for possible power outages and severe weather events ahead of Cyclone Narelle. Minister, how has the Albanese government allowed the fuel crisis to get so bad that regional Australians are being forced to beg for diesel just to keep generators running in an emergency?