Shadow Portfolio — 24 March 2026

The Member for Lindsay, Ms McIntosh, used Question Time on 24 March to press the Minister for Climate Change and Energy on whether the government supports the position of New South Wales Premier Chris Minns that fuel supply management should incorporate demand management procedures — potentially including rationing — delivered through a nationally consistent framework [TA-260324-house-a9c2a02c99ed:s085].

The question targets a live and politically sensitive fault line: whether the federal government endorses a rationing-adjacent approach to fuel security that a Labor state premier has publicly floated. By framing the question around Premier Minns's own words, Ms McIntosh forces the Minister either to distance the federal government from a Labor state counterpart or to own a policy position that carries significant public risk.

The records for this session are limited to this single exchange, and no ministerial response is captured in the segment. The opposition's line of attack on fuel supply and demand management warrants monitoring as a potential sustained theme, particularly given the absence of a recorded government answer and the unresolved question of federal-state policy alignment on energy security.