John Madigan (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Can the government explain why Australian households and businesses are being hit hard by increases in gas prices when world prices of all petroleum based products, including oil, gas and LNG, have halved in recent times? Is there any link between the fact that most of the gas production here in Australia is controlled by a small group of producers and competition is almost non-existent.