My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Resources, Senator Farrell. Last week's Gas statement of opportunities highlighted an imminent risk of gas shortfalls. Labor today voted against bringing its own legislation to the Senate despite having bipartisan support for it from the coalition. You've thrown the offshore gas industry into uncertainty and caused further delay by blocking your own legislation, despite claiming that this bill was urgent and desperately needed. What deal have you done with the Greens for their votes?

Order! Order, particularly on my right. Order, Senator McGrath. Senator Farrell.

I thank the senator for her question. None.

Senator McDonald, your first supplementary?

It was revealed on Monday and today that the government threw away bipartisan support for gas regulation changes and bowed to pressure to secure Green votes by giving the environment minister another EPBC trigger. Labor is clearly divided. Which factual powerbrokers in Labor supported the environment minister to overrule the resources minister?

Before I call the minister, I'll remind those on my right that Senator McDonald has the right to ask her question in silence. Minister Farrell?

I thank the senator for her question. I'm not sure how to answer that question, because there's nothing in your question that remotely resembles the truth or remotely resembles what has been happening in this place. It's the combination of the Greens and the coalition which is stopping progress on all of these things. Can I say this about Minister Madeleine King—

Government senators: A fine minister.

A very fine minister. But, more importantly, resources and especially gas are in very safe hands. From the time that your former government— (Time expired)

Senator McDonald, second supplementary.

The West Australian wrote, 'Thanks to the Labor Environment Action Network complaining to Minister Plibersek and the Prime Minister, Minister King was embarrassingly forced to change her own legislation.' It is clear that Minister King has been sidelined and the lean Green alliance is now actually responsible for Labor's resources policy. When will you give up the charade and promote Mr Bandt to cabinet?

Again, there's nothing in your question that resembles reality or the truth of the situation. I can only repeat what I said in my previous answer, that we have one of the finest resources ministers that this country has ever had.

Can I say this about gas, when was the first report that we had gas shortages? It was the year Tony Abbott became the prime minister. And what has happened? What happened in those nine years? You did absolutely nothing about securing gas supplies in this country.

We are doing something about that. We will do something about it and there is no better person to do it than Madeleine King.

On that note, I'd ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.