Madeleine King
Brand · Australian Labor Party · Australia
“The Albanese Labor government is delivering record funding for the Rockingham and Kwinana region. We're investing over $550 million in significant road upgrades to Anketell Road, including an overpass at the Rockingham Road intersection, which means it'll be easier and quicker for all the workers, and the truckies and their freight, to ge…”
“And I want to thank all the GPs and all the staff and workers at those practices right across the suburbs of Rockingham and Kwinana for the work they do for their community. These are vital services, and the importance of providing free and quality health care for the community cannot be overstated.”
“There are now 15 medical practices across those two towns that fully bulk-bill your GP appointments. Labor believes in Medicare, and we invest in Medicare so that the communities of Brand can get the health care they deserve.”
“Together with the Cook Labor government in Western Australia and St Pat's, we are delivering 26 new homes for those in need. This is an example of two great Labor governments working with an excellent community based organisation to get things done for the Kwinana community.”
“The experience in the United Kingdom of what started as a 25 per cent windfall tax on oil and gas production is that in four very short years 5,000 jobs have been lost, the industry has declined, production has reduced by 40 per cent and the UK is likely to import the vast bulk of its oil and gas by the 2030s, not to mention the end of th…”
“I thank the member for Clark for his question. The state and territory governments regulate much of the mining rehabilitation around the country, and they are responsible for ensuring that regulatory requirements indeed exist but also are met by mine owners.”
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“Together with the Cook Labor government in Western Australia and St Pat's, we are delivering 26 new homes for those in need. This is an example of two great Labor governments working with an excellent community based organisation to get things done for the Kwinana community. I want to thank Michael and the whole St Pat's team for the wonderful work they do, not only in Rockingham and Kwinana but right across Perth's southern suburbs, looking after people in need.”
“And I want to thank all the GPs and all the staff and workers at those practices right across the suburbs of Rockingham and Kwinana for the work they do for their community. These are vital services, and the importance of providing free and quality health care for the community cannot be overstated. Last week I took part in the sod turning of the St Pat's housing project in Kwinana with WA premier Roger Cook, state Minister for Housing and Works, John Carey, and my friend Kwinana mayor Peter Feasey. This is a major investment in the Kwinana community. The Albanese Labor government is putting $3.8 million to this important project through the social and affordable housing investment fund, and I want to thank my friend and colleague Minister Clare O'Neil for her leadership in getting more Aussies into their own homes.”
“There are now 15 medical practices across those two towns that fully bulk-bill your GP appointments. Labor believes in Medicare, and we invest in Medicare so that the communities of Brand can get the health care they deserve. Recently I visited the Waikiki GP Super Clinic and the Rockingham Medical and Dental Centre, both of which are now fully bulk-billing practices thanks to the Labor government. I met with Dr Kiran Puttappa and Practice Manager Keely Clapton at the Waikiki GP Super Clinic, and I thank them and their team for the fantastic work they do for their community. I also want to thank the head of operations, Catrina Rippon, and Practice Manager Jackie King at the Rockingham Medical and Dental Centre for their commitment to providing quality health care for families right across Rockingham.”
“The Albanese Labor government is delivering record funding for the Rockingham and Kwinana region. We're investing over $550 million in significant road upgrades to Anketell Road, including an overpass at the Rockingham Road intersection, which means it'll be easier and quicker for all the workers, and the truckies and their freight, to get in and out of the all-important Kwinana Industrial Area. Now, that's really good news for all the workers—the thousands of WA workers—in Kwinana, because that industry has been the backbone of the Western Australian economy since it first got started in the fifties, and this multimillion-dollar investment will ensure that the Kwinana Industrial Area remains the driver of a future made in Australia. This Labor government is delivering bulk-billing GP practices right across Kwinana and Rockingham.”
“It provides for our energy security. It provides for the energy security of our region and therefore the peace and prosperity of our region. Nothing is more important. There's not a more important thing Australia could do for the peace of our region. Proposed expenditure agreed to.”
“The experience in the United Kingdom of what started as a 25 per cent windfall tax on oil and gas production is that in four very short years 5,000 jobs have been lost, the industry has declined, production has reduced by 40 per cent and the UK is likely to import the vast bulk of its oil and gas by the 2030s, not to mention the end of the revenue base that was sought to be taxed. This is what the Greens, Senator Pocock, Clive Palmer and the teals have in common: a plan for a windfall profits tax to destroy the gas industry of Australia. Well, I for one will not stand for it. The gas industry of Australia employs many thousands of people. It has employed many thousands of people over the decades of its existence in this country. It has also generated an extraordinary amount of revenue for the communities that support the gas industry.”
“Combined with company tax and other taxes, taxation on oil and gas projects in the UK and the North Sea rose to 78 per cent. At the same time, a handbrake was placed on new exploration and development in the North Sea. The result is that revenue projections from the windfall tax have fallen by around 75 per cent, about 5,000 industry jobs have been lost since the introduction of this 25 per cent tax in 2022 and 58,000 jobs are forecast to be gone by the early 2030s. The UK is now relying more and more on imports for its energy.”
“This campaign has made for a clever slogan, and it certainly makes for some easy clicks and likes on social media. But the reality is very different. Many of these political groups and individuals spent the better part of their political careers campaigning to end Australia's gas industry altogether. For some, a gas tax campaign is an attempt to engineer that outcome via stealth. It is prudent to see what happens in other nations when they bring in such a proposal. In the energy price spike of 2022 brought on by Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, the conservative United Kingdom government brought in a 25 per cent energy profits levy on oil and gas windfall profits. The levy expanded to 35 per cent and then to 38 per cent two years later.”
“From 1 July next year, LNG exporters will be required to reserve the equivalent of 20 per cent of their LNG exports for the domestic market, and they will need to meet these domestic supply obligations before getting access to export approvals. Reserving Australian gas for the Australian community is the right thing to do. That's in stark contrast to the coalition, who, in the past, left the energy market in a diabolical mess. We continue to put policies in place that work in the best interests of Australian gas consumers. Our plan for Australian gas is a better option for Australia. What the Greens political party, Clive Palmer, the teals and Senator Pocock have in common is their shared campaign for an additional flat tax rate on the gas industry or some kind of windfall profits tax.”
“It underpins Australia's heavy industry and it is supported by Australian communities in the regions and the capitals right around the country. So it is only right that Australian households and Australian businesses and industry should have access to reliable gas at fair prices. Gas remains critical to the energy security of Australia and that of our regional partners. Gas offers fast, flexible generation that backs up renewables and keeps the grid stable. It will be essential to our net zero transformation. It is particularly important to support high-heat manufacturing, including critical minerals processing. We simply won't build a thriving critical minerals industry or maintain manufacturing capacity in this nation without reliable and affordable gas, and that's why we are taking action.”
“I thank all members for their participation in this consideration in detail, particularly the members for Hunter, Forde, Pearce and Paterson. All are strong supporters of the resources sector. This government has put resources at the very heart of our policymaking because we know that a strong resources sector means a strong economy now and into the future and more jobs for future generations of Australians. The government is determined to ensure that Australian gas works for Australians and that Australians can access that important energy source at affordable prices. This is the simple principle behind the Albanese government's gas reservation scheme. Gas is an Australian resource. It comes from Australian land and Australian waters. It is developed by Australian workers.”
“There are also new technologies, really importantly, that that repurpose mine infrastructure—for example, proposals such as Green Gravity in the member for Cunningham's electorate, which uses disused coal mine shafts to store and dispatch renewable gravitational energy. These are really important projects. There is a lot of work to do on rehabilitation. Taxpayers are not footing the bill. The state and territory governments are primarily responsible for making sure that that rehabilitation happens, but we support them as we can.”
“That includes those state and territory participants that I mentioned earlier, and their responsibilities—and that is how they are seeking to meet those responsibilities. Rehabilitation has changed a lot. As of recently, Geoscience Australia has an atlas of mine waste that seeks to unlock value in previously mined and underused rock to boost our global position as a clean energy powerhouse. At Collie in my home state of Western Australia, Lake Kepwari, a former coal mine, is now a lake enjoyed by many in the community. And Iluka's Eneabba Operations show how large mineral sands projects can be returned to really great biodiversity. But equally, in the south-west, we see how mineral sands are returned to agricultural land.”
“While Commonwealth taxpayers do not foot the bill, the Commonwealth does support responsible mine rehabilitation in a number of ways, but, very importantly, through the ongoing funding for investment in the Cooperative Research Centre for Transformations in Mining Economies, CRC TiME. The report that you referenced was a joint effort between the CSIRO and CRC TiME. CRC TiME is the world's only dedicated research body examining the social, economic, cultural and environmental impacts of mine closure, as well as delving into how you do effectively rehabilitate a mine. I want to take this opportunity to thank the CEO, Dr Guy Boggs, and his team and the 75 partners in that CRC for their efforts in addressing the challenges of mine remediation.”
“I thank the member for Clark for his question. The state and territory governments regulate much of the mining rehabilitation around the country, and they are responsible for ensuring that regulatory requirements indeed exist but also are met by mine owners. So governments in all of our states and in the Northern Territory require mining companies to plan for closure from the outset and to back those plans with financial assurances, including the payment of bonds and other similar schemes. There are, however, legacy mines around the country that came into existence before the structured and very essential important assurances I've just mentioned and the overall regulation of mining activity. The states and the Northern Territory manage those legacy mines and their remediation and rehabilitation.”
“The government, and I as the Minister for Northern Australia, have supported a $220 million loan to Perdaman to build the largest urea plant, a $160 million loan to the Pilbara Ports Authority and a $95 million loan to the Water Corporation. This in total $475 million federal commitment to the project and supporting infrastructure will see over $8 billion of investment. I know those opposite want to take credit, but the thing is that they didn't secure the approvals for the project. That is the truth. They talk a big game, but they don't do anything and they failed to invest more in NAIF. Member for Kennedy, as you know, we will make this country urea independent. By the middle of next year is when production will commence. I think we can look forward to that.”
“The member for Kennedy is, of course, quite right to say that agriculture depends on fertiliser. I congratulate the Treasurer and the minister for agriculture for the fuel security and resilience package in this budget. Part of that is a $7.5 billion fuel and fertiliser security package. I'll turn to the way forward in a moment. We have secured, through the new powers given to Export Finance Australia, 90,000 tonnes of urea to Australia—we're supporting Incitec Pivot and CSBP—and 250,000 tonnes of urea from Indonesia. That's through that new mechanism. You're right to identify the supply chain challenge. Moving to the future—this government has invested, as many will be aware, over $475 million through the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility for the Perdaman urea facility in Karratha.”
“I want to thank the member for her question. As Chair of the Standing Committee on Primary Industries she knows, more than anyone, the importance of gas in Australian manufacturing and that Labor is the true party of the Australian resources sector. Mr Speaker, as you know, as we all know, gas is a vital Australian resource, and it should work for all Australians.”
“We have delivered more than $150 million in grants to the Critical Minerals Development Program and the Australian Critical Minerals Research and Development Hub and also $10 million doing work on common-user infrastructure and processing facilities with Western Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and the NT. This government is delivering for the critical minerals industry and for resources sector workers right across the country. Because we understand the resources sector, we back it in every single time.”
“Just yesterday our $1.2 billion Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve passed this House of Representatives, and we will begin delivery on that almost immediately, once it passes through the other place. We are delivering our $3.4 billion Resourcing Australia's Prosperity program through Geoscience Australia. They've already found potential deposits of rare earths. We have delivered $1 billion for critical minerals investment through the National Reconstruction Fund and already invested in Liontown underground lithium mine and also the Alpha high-purity alumina project in the seat of Flynn. We have delivered $885 million in loans for six critical minerals projects through the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility. That's over 3,000 jobs and $6.6 billion in public benefit right across the country.”
“We are strengthening the mining industry because the Albanese government is the true party of the resources sector. Those words often trigger those opposite, with some pretty strange responses, and that is because they simply can't face the fact that Labor is delivering for the resources industry and has been delivering from day one in government. We have committed over $28 billion to support our critical minerals industry. We have now legislated into law the Critical Minerals Production Tax Incentive. It was legislated last year with absolutely no help from those opposite. It was designed with the resources industry and is an absolute game changer for critical minerals and rare earths.”
“Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. It's a very kind present. But I really want to thank the member for Swan for her question today—another great birthday present. The member for Swan is a brilliant advocate for the resources sector. She has worked in the sector and is proud of her time in the steelcaps and the high vis. And she's not the only one on this side of the House. The members for Moore, for Bullwinkel, for Hunter and for Spence—and I'm sorry if I've left out other former resources workers here. All of these members that have worked in that sector know much more than all of those opposite put together. Those members and all the members on this side are backing Australian ingenuity and capability, which brings in new jobs, new investment and new opportunities in mining and processing and refining.”
“I agree with the United States Vice President, who said: … the international market for critical minerals is failing … driven … by forces beyond any individual country's control. The Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve helps us take back control of Australia's critical minerals so we can construct deals and trading arrangements in the national interest from a position of strength. I know the opposition have said they will support the strategic reserve. They failed to support production tax credits for critical minerals, so I hope their support of this really important initiative holds.”
“Export Finance Australia will have a suite of new financial tools, including offtake agreements with fixed or floating prices, to enable new projects to get off the ground, providing much needed price certainty and, really importantly, more jobs right across the country in critical minerals. This government is making the most of our amazing geology, and our committed resources workers and our committed resources sector, by making more things here. This will strengthen our ability to collaborate with international partners and the private sector to diversify global supply chains. We are using our unique geology to advance the national interest. We will initially focus on antimony, gallium and rare earth elements, which are all needed for our national resilience and national security.”
“Today the Albanese Labor government is delivering the election commitment to deliver a landmark $1.2 billion Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve. The bill that was introduced earlier today will make the critical minerals reserve operational well ahead of schedule, while at the same time securing the all-important liquid fuel and other commodities in that wider strategic reserve. I thank the Minister for Climate Change and Energy for the work he and his team have done in relation to the strategic reserve. For the critical minerals part of this reserve, it will allow us to immediately bring forward the great body of work we have commenced with partners like the United States, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Canada and the European Union.”
“I want to thank the member for Hasluck for her question. Just like everyone on this side of the chamber, the member for Hasluck knows the very real value of critical minerals to our national resilience and our national prosperity. These are minerals that are vital for renewable energy, defence technology and advanced manufacturing—not just EVs and iPhones and laptops but also radar systems, night-vision systems, submarines and advanced weapons. From day one of this government, the Albanese Labor government has been cementing Australia at the centre of global efforts to diversify critical minerals supply chains. As the true party of the Australian resources sector, we are developing our resources, developing our regions, building a future made in Australia and creating secure jobs here at home.”
“Australia, under the leadership of this government, is stepping up to take responsibility to lead globally on critical minerals and rare earth elements, and I commend the bill to the House.”
“Australia will continue to mine our traditional commodities and our strategically important critical minerals and rare earths. This government, through the strategic reserve and our extensive work, is ensuring we match our geological advantage and our enormous capability in the resources industry with a strategy fit for a changing world—one that builds our industrial and strategic capability while strengthening our communities. We will capitalise on this opportunity to create secure jobs at home here in Australia and to take a global lead in diversifying the world's supply chains. I support all aspects of the strategic reserve within this bill. It ensures our fuel security as well as security of other strategic materials and will ensure our security of strategic critical minerals and rare earths.”
“We remain committed to working with our international partners to diversify global supply chains and devise joint solutions to the challenges facing critical minerals markets. This is not only in the world's interests but also in the interests of industries and workers here in Australia. Both our deposits of traditional commodities, such as iron ore, coal and gold, and our deposits of critical minerals and rare earths are the envy of the world. The resources sector of Australia has delivered security, prosperity and strategic relevance in a difficult world. That was built through sheer hard work and commitment by generations of Australians. Despite what some might say when they miss the point of Donald Horne's now immortal words, it sure wasn't luck.”
“Australia's landmark framework on critical minerals and rare earths with the United States will unlock a $13 billion pipeline of projects. I want to take this moment to acknowledge the work of the president and chair of the US export-import bank, John Jovanovic, who works with our CEO of the EFA, John Hopkins. Together, they are collaborating and cooperating on these projects and doing excellent work to grow this industry. Our agreement with the United States is in addition to agreements with Canada, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and the European Union as well as our formal membership to the Quad critical minerals initiative and, very importantly, the G7 critical minerals production alliance.”
“We've also, very importantly, provided $3.4 billion to Geoscience Australia for the Resourcing Australia's Prosperity program to find the next generation of critical minerals deposits, more than $150 billion in various grants programs and also funding to investigate really important common-user critical minerals processing facilities with state and territory governments. The Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve positions Australia to collaborate even more closely with our key partners around the world. Over the last four years, we have worked with our counterparts internationally to advance our shared interests in these commodities. This is a global challenge, and Australia is at the forefront and playing a leading role.”
“Since June 2022 this government has supported the industry to create more secure jobs here in Australia and to bolster our economic resilience. We have invested more than $28 billion in critical minerals and rare earths, including $7½ billion for production tax incentives to encourage onshore processing, $5 billion for the critical minerals facility to help get projects off the ground, $1 billion for critical minerals investments by the National Reconstruction Fund and $500 million earmarked for such projects through the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility.”
“Critical minerals are vital inputs for defence technologies on which our security depends. As the government announced in January, the reserve will initially focus on antimony, gallium and rare earth elements. They are also essential to clean energy technologies and advanced manufacturing. Secure supply of these minerals will support not only the development of our own capabilities but also our close partners. But these minerals are just the starting point. The government will update the reserve's target minerals over time as market dynamics, strategic interests and geopolitical situations evolve. The reserve builds on the work this government has done to secure investment in our critical minerals sector from day one.”
“We undertook to establish the reserve by the second half of this year, but the bill is now before the House to address the immediate challenge of fuel security and our future economic and industrial security as well. This demonstrates our government's commitment to building a strong critical minerals industry and meeting the challenges facing the sector. The reserve will operate imminently, but its start date is in the hands of this parliament. I encourage the opposition and the crossbench in the other place to work with this government to get it up and running as soon as possible. I know the opposition has, this morning, agreed to support this bill. I'm yet to hear comment on the critical minerals part of that, so we will surely get comment on that soon.”
“The bill gives Export Finance Australia new tools to deliver the Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve, including offtake agreements with fixed or floating prices, trading in forward-offtake contracts, intermediary demand and supply aggregation, physical stockpiling and contracts for difference. These tools will ensure the reserve can meet demand, deliver offtake, virtually or physically stockpile critical minerals and provide some price certainty. Importantly, the reserve gives Australia the tools to construct financing arrangements between Australia's strategic partners and the private sector to build out critical minerals supply chains.”
“Yet many do not perform well in what commentators refer to as the open market. That is because an open international market for low-volume rare earths and critical minerals is a mirage. Market dominance, opaque trading arrangements and trade bans make for uneven playing fields. It's a field so uneven it is unplayable. As the US vice-president said at the Critical Minerals Ministerial convened by the Secretary of State in Washington in February, which I attended: … the international market for critical minerals is failing. … … … … consistent investment is nearly impossible, and it will stay that way so long as prices are erratic and unpredictable. Supply chains are brittle and are driven by forces beyond any individual country's control. This bill that we bring to the House today is an important step to take back some of that control.”
“In relation to the critical minerals part of this reserve, it reinforces Australia's role as a trusted supplier of the commodities the world needs, and it signals Australia's clear eyed intent to forcefully step-up to diversify global critical minerals supply chains. Critical minerals are vital for Australia's economy, for its national security and for a future made in Australia. But Australia knows, as our friends and partners across the world also know, that the playing field is not fair. Australia has some of the largest deposits of critical minerals in the world, and it is a conundrum that substances we talk about so often are not well understood. They exist in most products that we use every single day and nearly every moment, and they are essential to our national defence.”
“But I also did not see the member for Gippsland or the now leader of the Nationals in the House of Representatives be so keen to support Western Australia's fuel security when BP announced its closure in 2020, in Kwinana. So maybe that reflects on their record in government, where they saw four fuel refineries in this country go out of business. This government, this Albanese Labor government, is taking immediate steps to address the immediate challenge of fuel security. I want to take this moment to thank my friend and colleague the Minister for Trade and Tourism, Don Farrell, and his whole team, for his cooperation on the amendments to the EFA bill and also my friend and colleague the Minister for Climate Change and Energy and his team for the work they have all done to make sure this important national action is taken.”
“Adjustments made to this bill to address issues caused by conflict in the Middle East that are affecting Australian supply chains demonstrate how ministers and departments of this government are working together to squarely meet the challenges the nation is facing. While those opposite simply never miss a moment to politicise a national challenge, this government gets on with the job of securing strategic materials where needed for the benefit of the Australian people. I heard the comments from the leader of the National Party in the House of Representatives. He spoke about the need for fuel-refining capacity in this country. Well, I couldn't agree more.”
“In an uncertain world, our resources are instruments of economic resilience and a source of strategic strength and relevance. My department has been developing the Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve, its structure and what is required to get the best outcomes for Australia. This bill before the parliament today was originally designed to enable the Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve. The work that the government has been doing to adjust the financial tools available to Export Finance Australia for the reserve are eminently suitable to be applied to other commodities where supply may be constrained.”
“Australia is stepping up to lead globally on critical minerals and rare earths. I fully support the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Strategic Reserve) Bill, which gives legislative effect to the Albanese Labor government's landmark commitment to implement the national Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve, as well as the strategic reserve for other fuels and critical supplies. I want to speak mainly about the Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve. This is a $1.2 billion commitment that will form a core component of this government's determined and consistent efforts to position Australia at the forefront of global efforts to bolster the world's reliable and trusted access to critical minerals and rare earths.”
“Lowering tariffs means more choices at lower prices to help ease cost-of-living pressures at supermarkets right around the country for all Australian families. Farmers and businesses will benefit from cheaper machinery, vehicles, parts and equipment that they source from the EU, and this will flow into households around the country. Importantly, this government has protected—”
“We lifted the tariff walls, we support fair trade, we support free trade, and we are building more and more connections every single day. I acknowledge the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and I echo her views that both continents share the same challenges and goals. We need to maximise our potential together, and through this EU FTA, we will do that. This has been eight years in the making. It's a historic achievement achieved by this government. This European Union agreement combines us with the 27 member states—the second-largest economy in the world, with a population of over 450 million people and a GDP of $31 trillion in 2025. This free trade agreement between Australia and the EU means lower tariffs on imports from the European Union, including what's on shelves at grocery stores right around the nation.”
“I thank the member for Hughes for his great question. I'm really proud to be representing in this place the finest trade minister this country has ever seen, Senator Don Farrell. Under Senator Farrell's leadership and that of the Prime Minister, this government has delivered economic benefits to Australian workers and families. Under the leadership of the trade minister and this Prime Minister, this government has removed $20 billion of trade impediments. We have signed an economic cooperation and trade agreement with India, FTAs with the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, and, today, an FTA with the European Union. All this confirms that Labor is the party of free, open and fair trade. After all, it was the Hawke government that lifted the tariff wall in this country and opened our economy up to fair trade.”
“We are working to ensure multinationals, including gas companies, pay their fair share of tax in Australia. Obviously, the PRRT only applies to offshore tax exporters, as opposed to those that onshore in Queensland, which is a different matter. Nonetheless, all of the gas companies do pay a significant amount of tax in this country. They also employ over 80,000 Australians and contribute quite heartily to the regions right around the country. I thank the member for her question.”
“I thank the member for her question. Just to clarify, the budget will be delivered in May, and I'm not going to comment on any processes in the meantime. I would just clarify that the oil and gas industry contributed almost $12 billion in taxes in 2023-24. We reformed the petroleum resources rent tax to deliver a fairer return to the Australian community from their natural resources. These changes to the PRRT ensure that offshore gas companies pay more tax sooner and, as I said, deliver a greater return to the Australian people. These changes provide industry and investors policy certainty to allow sufficient supply of domestic gas and to ensure Australia remains a reliable international energy supplier and investment partner. As everyone would imagine—everyone knows here—that's very important and important now more than ever.”
“The Treasurer has just highlighted exactly what those opposite have done: voted against important reform to make sure the Australian people can have access to the stockpiles of fuel that the Minister for Energy and Climate Change has made sure exist, while the Leader of the Opposition made sure it was in Texas—or somewhere; I don't even know anymore: it's so confusing, whatever their stockpiling plan was. And now they come in here and try to make accusations about what we are doing in the interests of the Australian people.”
“I thank the leader for his question—sorry: the manager—I thank the member! An honourable member: It's hard to keep up! It really is! But, to the question directly, what I will guarantee to the Australian people is that they will be far better placed to withstand the international shocks caused by the conflict in the Middle East with this government looking out for their interests and always acting in the national interest than if those MPs on the other side were on these treasury benches. It is these people behind me, these Labor MPs, who will always fight in the national interest, and I guarantee that they will work to make sure the Australian people are well supplied with fuel.”
“It makes sure that a strong north will contribute to a very strong Australia. I thank all members once again for their contributions, and I commend the bill to the House. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time. Message from the Governor-General recommending appropriation announced.”
“This total $475 million federal commitment to the project and supporting infrastructure will see an estimated $8.5 billion in public benefit. It is a remarkable project. At a time where we are seeing constraints on the export of urea through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, knowing that this project will start production in March of next year will be very reassuring for Australian farmers into the future. This bill strengthens the legislative foundation of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility. It enhances accountability and provides certainty to investors and project proponents. It ensures NAIF remains a reliable partner in delivering the long-term infrastructure necessary to grow northern Australia. It is a practical, measured and future focused package of reforms.”