Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Hansard source

You are right: I could not help myself; it will be in this place for a long time. As I have said to many people: one small fluffy toy but a huge reaction from government. Why is it so? We also need to strengthen the Trade Practices Act to give greater scope for dealing with abuse of market power. I will end on this point: about six years ago I was a customer of LPG and I went to great expense to convert my car. But, like so many other people, I got disillusioned that the government would not assist and that LPG kept getting more expensive and, proportionately, became uneconomical as a fuel to use. It was cheaper to buy fuel, which is what I started doing. I was driven out of LPG, and I know many others were. Not only was I driven out but the people who installed my gas conversion were also driven out. The government needs to do more about this. (Time expired)

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