Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

As the Prime Minister said when he announced this plan after National Cabinet, we are currently at level 2. Level 2 includes the government taking precautionary actions to shore up fuel supply: buy only the fuel you need, make voluntary choices to use less, and avoid the impact of higher fuel prices. So, Senator, we are acting in accordance with the plan that we have transparently made available to the Australian people, and the Prime Minister will have more to say in his address to the nation tonight.

What I would say, again, is that in a time when we see an unprecedented global shock—the worst shock that energy markets have experienced since the 1970s—we have the alternative government of the day not being, as we have been in the past, when in opposition, willing to put aside partisanship for the national interest. What we see is the opposition trying to make people scared. (Time expired)