Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his Treasurer’s statement on 11 December 1996 that the government would abandon petrol prices surveillance because it would reduce regulation, promote competition and ‘put downward pressure on petrol prices to the benefit of consumers’. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the government abandoned prices surveillance of petrol on 1 August 1998? Prime Minister, after 11 years, when will the Treasurer’s downwards pressure on petrol prices kick in?

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