Politics LIVE updates: Parliament returns with Albanese government under pressure due to fuel crisis

2.06pm

That’s all for today

By Nick Newling

Thanks for following our live coverage of this afternoon’s events in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Here’s what happened:

• The government came under repeated questioning from the Coalition on fuel and fertiliser supply chains. Labor downplayed the opposition’s concerns over the issue, saying that both commodities were arriving in Australia in a relatively normal fashion.
• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had made agreements with Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on fuel security, and flagged his expectation of a “two-way flow” with China, Korea and Japan.
• Energy Minister Chris Bowen offered a state-by-state breakdown of petrol station shortages, offering updated numbers for New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.
• Greens senator Steph Hodgins-May brought a chain of dead leafy sea dragons into the chamber to protest government inaction on climate change amid the algal bloom off the South Australian coast.

This blog will return tomorrow, with a delayed question time that will begin at 3pm. EU President Ursula von der Leyen will address a joint sitting of parliament earlier in the day.

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