Tribune’s note

Minister Ayres drove a concentrated supply-security agenda across communications and the Senate on 13 May. A PM media release announced approximately 90,000 tonnes of agricultural-grade urea secured under new Strategic Reserve powers, a 250,000-tonne fertiliser deal with Indonesia's PT Pupuk, and a $7.5 billion Fuel and Fertiliser Security Facility — framing fuel and fertiliser supply as a unified resilience priority.

In the Senate, Ayres introduced the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Responding to Exceptional Circumstances) Bill 2026, giving the Treasurer and the ACCC new crisis-coordination powers and raising Oil Code of Conduct penalties to a maximum of $10 million or 10 percent of turnover. Question Time extended the portfolio's reach further, with Ayres linking the $2 billion housing infrastructure package, the Boyne smelter joint investment, and the national AI plan under a single productivity-and-resilience frame.

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