Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

The government hands over billions of dollars of public money every year to Australia's biggest and most profitable mining corporations through the Fuel Tax Credit scheme. It's cheap diesel for big polluters—fossil fuel subsidies while everyone else has to tighten their belts in a fuel crisis. It's public money to make climate pollution worse. It undermines the climate gains made by renewables. And it disincentivises electrification of heavy industries. The chair of the Climate Change Authority, Matt Kean, has described this cheap fuel for big miners as 'insane'. The OECD has called for its elimination. Fortescue is running a national ad campaign calling for reform. Climate groups, the ACTU and Labor's own Environment Action Network all say it's got to go. In a climate, fuel and cost-of-living crisis, why is this government giving billions in handouts to the most profitable and polluting industry on earth?