House debates

Monday, 2 June 2008

Questions without Notice

Fuel Prices

2:44 pm

Photo of Robert McClellandRobert McClelland (Barton, Australian Labor Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

but the government will ensure that Fuelwatch applies across the board and that the full gamut of constitutional powers will be utilised to ensure that it applies to corporations, unincorporated bodies, partnerships, sole traders and the like and, if it be necessary to discuss the matter with state governments, ensure that there are necessary arrangements in place. The arrangements will apply across the board to all those bodies—being corporations, sole traders or partnerships—selling petrol. That will be done utilising the full scope of the federal Corporations Law. It will be done using the full gamut of constitutional arrangements and it will be done in consultation with the states.

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