House debates

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Questions without Notice

Tasmania: Fuel Prices

2:52 pm

Photo of Andrew WilkieAndrew Wilkie (Denison, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Prime Minister, you have intervened in the gas market, directed ASIC to look at electricity prices and announced an expansion of the Snowy Hydro scheme. But there remains one big energy problem: the absurd difference in the price of petrol and LPG in Tasmania compared with the mainland. This difference is often in the tens of cents per litre and cannot be explained by Bass Strait costs alone. Prime Minister, surely energy security and affordability is too important to leave to the market. What will you do about this? Will you intervene and help ordinary Tasmanians in a way no Prime Minister has ever done before?

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