Portfolio — 12 May 2026
Minister Farrell's activity on 12 May centred on two distinct policy fronts. His PM media release detailed the $14.8 billion Strengthening Australia's Fuel Resilience package — the Budget's headline energy-security measure — spanning immediate excise relief, mandatory stockholding targets, and a new Australian Fuel Security Reserve. In Senate question time, Farrell fielded a First Nations justice question from Senator Thorpe, citing $69 million in justice reinvestment funding and a $3.9 billion National Access to Justice Partnership commitment.
The two streams are thematically separate, but both reflect the government's Budget-week pattern of combining short-term relief measures with longer-term structural investment.
The official records this note draws on — the raw primary documents themselves, as published.