QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator AYRES (New South Wales—Minister for Industry and Innovation and Minister for Science) (14:58): What I can guarantee is that, because our fuel reserve is here in Australia, actions like what was undertaken last week, where a portion of the minimum stockholding obligation was released in order to deal with some of those undersupply issues, particularly with independent retailers who have traditionally bought fuel on the spot market in order to make sure that fuel got to those parts of Australia—that kind of action, if Mr Taylor were still the energy minister, would not be open to the government.

He had Australia's minimum stockholding obligation stored somewhere in Texas, El Paso, Dallas? I don't know where. It was a magical fairy dust allocation.

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