QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator AYRES (New South Wales—Minister for Industry and Innovation and Minister for Science) (14:10): Well, it's certainly true that this reform is significant. It's necessarily complex, because it's retrofitting a reservation on a reform that should have been done in the early 2000s. But what is simple is this: this reform will deliver cheaper gas for Australia—for Australian industry and Australians.

I have been encouraged by the approach that colleagues across almost all of the parliament have taken on this issue. We will work across the parliament to deliver this reform, because it is in Australia's interest that we have a gas reservation policy in place. It will benefit, overwhelmingly, heavy industry and make Australia stronger in terms of our industries and our regional economies.

There is one group—the sort of fake battlers over there, draped in orange, in One Nation—who have declared that they are opposed to this. We will work with everybody across the parliament to deliver this reform, because it's in— (Time expired)