Anthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

The government has been upfront with Australians: with the budget heaving with a trillion dollars of debt, we can't afford to extend this very expensive temporary measure. The Treasurer has written to the chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Ms Cass-Gottlieb, instructing the commission to step up its surveillance of fuel markets ahead of and following the reintroduction of the full excise rate from 29 September 2022.

As the independent regulator enforcing Australia's competition consumer laws, the ACCC will investigate concerns arising out of misrepresentations regarding petrol prices and false and misleading conduct or anticompetitive conduct in fuel markets and take appropriate action.

Question negatived.