00:00In New South Wales today we have 124 service stations without diesel, that's down one on
00:05yesterday, that's 5% of New South Wales service stations. 27 with no fuel at all, that's down
00:12seven on yesterday. Victoria 40 with no diesel and 28 with no unleaded petrol, that's around
00:182% of Victorian service stations for both. Queensland 30 with no diesel, 25 with no regular
00:25unleaded. South Australia 4 with no diesel and 2 without unleaded, they're both down
00:31as well. Western Australia 8 with no diesel, that's down 12 on yesterday's update and 21
00:37with no unleaded. Tasmania 7 and 5, Northern Territory 4 and 4, ACT 4 with no diesel, none
00:45zero with no unleaded. That's a total of 221 without diesel across Australia out of
00:51the 7,940 service stations. That's pretty close to 3% of service stations without diesel. More
00:58work to do, as I've consistently said, until we get that number down to zero, but we are
01:03continuing to deal with very high demand for diesel in particular, other fuels as well, but
01:09particularly diesel, a very high demand. And the supply chain in regional New South Wales
01:14in particular has been stretched as it's sowing and seeding season in New South Wales. And we
01:19have, with the industry, been prioritising getting diesel to farmers so they can get their crops
01:23into the ground. But nevertheless, good progress, more work to do to ensure that that fuel continues
01:29to flow to where it's needed. Internationally, the situation remains with the update that I
01:34provided on Saturday with 39 days' worth of petrol. And Australians would have noticed that
01:41that figure has remained pretty static. 39 days, that's up a bit on when this international
01:47crisis started. 30 days, roughly, for diesel and jet fuel, which is pretty static. Australians
01:54can be reassured, I think, that that means that petrol and diesel is going out the door at a rapid
01:59rate, but also coming in the door. I've been in constant contact with the fuel companies. I can confirm
02:05there continues to be no cancellations of expected deliveries into Australia. And they now have
02:11secure contracted supply well into May. And I'll continue to provide those updates. Internationally,
02:17of course, the Prime Minister spoke to the Premier of China. He's off to Singapore tomorrow. I spoke
02:23to my Malaysian counterpart yesterday. We continue to engage very strongly with our international
02:30counterparts, particularly in South East Asia, and we've been very pleased that our counterparts
02:35have recognised their role in being a reliable energy supplier to Australia when it comes to
02:40liquid fuels, just as they recognise our role and our history as a reliable supplier of other
02:46types of energy.
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