Rex Patrick (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I won't be supporting this motion either. Whilst I do agree with many of the good ideas the Greens are putting forward and the need for us to move to electric vehicles as soon as possible, we do have a fuel security issue in Australia. We only have something like 25 to 30 days of fuel. This does something to remedy that and make sure that we do have some onshore processing. I recall a couple of years ago Exercise Pitch Black, in the Northern Territory, in which the Air Force basically ran out of fuel. We can't have that sort of situation. I recognise that we need to move to a low-carbon society and move away from fossil fuels, but we have got to do so in a responsible manner.