Robinvale residents are right to be furious about the fuel supply shortages occurring in the region.  The Albanese Labor Government are untrustworthy, and this has yet again become crystal clear in this latest marathon sitting of Parliament in Canberra.

In Question Time, the Nationals in Coalition Opposition have been asking the government consistently why we have a fuel supply problem, particularly in regional Australia.  Energy Minister Chris Bowen kept insisting there is no supply issue, but now we know 6 shipments due in a few weeks’ time have been cancelled or delayed.

Local petrol stations have been running out of diesel and unleaded.  In question time on Monday, Minister Bowen admitted 109 Victorian petrol stations had run out of fuel, far more than in most other states.  

Gaslighting is synonymous with Labor and here, again, Labor tried to blame Australians for buying too much fuel.  People are buying fuel because they do not trust untrustworthy Labor governments.  Australians have been burnt before – we remember the pandemic.   You cannot blame Victorians ‘panic buying’, but Labor is trying to say it is you - not them - that are the problem.

As we see time and time again, whether it’s the collapse in real wages, rising interest rates or Labor’s home-grown cost of living crisis, the Albanese Labor Government says they are not responsible.  

Meanwhile, Robinvale growers tell me their buyers won’t pay the higher cost of delivery to market so the painful choice may be not to harvest at all.  One in 5 cropping farmers are considering not sowing this year.  

Four years in, the Prime Minister is already tired and running out of puff, and excuses.  

We would be in even worse shape had The Nationals not spent $260 million in Coalition government to increase diesel storages by 40 per cent. We created the Minimum Stockholding Obligation, but Labor tried to claim it was their policy.

Not content with doing nothing, Labor pretends Coalition fuel security action was their own.