House debates Petroleum Retail Legislation Repeal Bill 2006

Consideration in Detail

Wednesday, 16 August 2006 House of Representatives

Joel Fitzgibbon

Joel Fitzgibbon Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Revenue

10:49 am

What a very disappointing response from the minister. I posed three tests for him. Will he support our important amendments to the Trade Practices Act? At least we got an answer: no. Will he support our proposition to expand the referral powers to the ACCC? It was a disappointing answer: no. At least we got an answer. But probably the most important question was a very specific one: how many people do the minister and his department expect to take up the opportunity to secure a grant for conversion to LPG? He completely squibbed that question. Let us not have this rubbish: ‘We don’t know how many people might take up the opportunity—

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