Steve Gibbons (Bendigo, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is directed to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his refusal on 8 June to give the ACCC further powers to scrutinise petrol prices. Why won’t the government get serious and act on the crippling and unexplained spikes in petrol prices, particularly on long weekends, by writing to the ACCC chairman to initiate formal monitoring of petrol prices under part VIIA section 95G of the Trade Practices Act? Why does the Prime Minister keep telling us that the ACCC has ‘all the power in the world’ when it is obvious to everyone that it does not?

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