Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Finance, Competition Policy and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

On indulgence, to start with, I understood that the Deputy Prime Minister had not completed her answer before, and I was waiting for her to get the call. That is by way of explanation to the House. My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his own regulatory impact statement on Fuelwatch released reluctantly late last week. Specifically, I refer him to the statement:

... it remains unclear whether option one—

that is, Fuelwatch

would be successful in delivering lower retail petrol prices.

If the Prime Minister will not rule out higher petrol prices as a result of Fuelwatch, why is the Prime Minister preceding with bad legislation?

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