Tribune’s note

The Member for Barker, Mr Pasin, used Question Time on 26 March to press the Minister for Climate Change and Energy over a four-week fuel-supply delay affecting a fourth-generation farming operation near Eudunda, South Australia. Mr Pasin cited the case of Mary Morris, whose property had been formally re-categorised as critical infrastructure yet faced a gap of nearly a month between her fuel order on 4 March and her scheduled delivery date of 1 April [TA-260326-house-acd3ee5310f1:s140].

The line of questioning frames the delay as a practical failure flowing directly from the government's energy and fuel-supply settings — the critical-infrastructure designation, rather than accelerating supply, appears to have provided no operational benefit to the farmer. Only one parliamentary record covers this activity; no comms-stream material or prior-context candidates were provided for this period, so the Note reflects this single intervention alone.

Primary records (1)

The official records this note draws on — the raw primary documents themselves, as published.

HansardQUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICETony PasinThursday 26 March 2026