House debates

Monday, 26 May 2008

Private Members’ Business

Budget

9:26 pm

Photo of Luke HartsuykerLuke Hartsuyker (Cowper, National Party, Deputy Leader of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

I hear the members opposite saying they think Fuelwatch is a good thing. They think FuelWatch is a great thing. Fuelwatch is going to save Australia. How much are we going to save on Fuelwatch? We had the Petrol Commissioner saying we are going to save 5c a litre, we had the Assistant Treasurer saying we were going to save 2c a litre and we had the head of the ACCC saying it is not about saving money at all; it is all about transparency. All of them cannot be right. One of them has to be right, and I am not sure which one it is. Is the Assistant Treasurer right? Are we going to save 2c, Assistant Treasurer? Or are we going to save 5c? Or are we going to save nothing at all? Certainly the experience of motorists in Perth is that the price of petrol there is relatively higher than other places. They are certainly not enjoying FuelWatch.

Debate interrupted.

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