Shadow Portfolio — 25 March 2026

The Member for Moncrieff, Ms Angie Bell, had a two-register day in the House on 25 March 2026 — a procedural segment of tributes and acknowledgements, followed by a substantive question time intervention targeting the government's handling of a live fuel supply crisis.

In the procedural segment, the Member associated the Coalition with the Prime Minister's recognition of endometriosis month, invoking the former Minister for Health, Mr Greg Hunt, as evidence of the Coalition's prior advocacy for women living with the condition [TA-260325-house-8e0b2c08f739:s002]. The Member then paid tribute to Rhoda Roberts AO, acknowledging her as a pioneering First Nations artist and cultural leader who became the first Aboriginal host on mainstream Australian television, co-founded the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust, shaped the Festival of the Dreaming, led Indigenous programming at the Sydney Opera House, and served as SBS's inaugural elder in residence [TA-260325-house-8e0b2c08f739:s004].

The Member emphasised Ms Roberts's role in bringing First Nations culture to global audiences through the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games opening ceremony and her enduring legacy as a mentor to generations of Indigenous artists.

The more consequential intervention came in question time, where the Member pressed the Minister for Climate Change and Energy directly on the fuel supply disruption then unfolding [TA-260325-house-8e0b2c08f739:s136]. The Member cited almost 500 service stations that had run dry and invoked Queensland Premier David Crisafulli's public call for a national plan with real-time visibility of fuel flows.

The Member asked when the minister would act to ensure fuel reached areas of need, framing the demand around two specific policy requirements: national coordination and supply chain transparency. The opposition's line positions the government as passive in the face of a crisis that a state premier — from a different party — had already publicly escalated. No comms stream material was available for this date; the parliamentary record is the sole source.