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FuelWatch is actually a great plan: Ferguson toes the party line

27/05/2008 9:53:00 AM.  | Yoni Bashan

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Labor's been sent into damage control over embarrassing comments made by a senior minister about its national FuelWatch scheme.

Energy Minister Martin Ferguson wrote a letter to colleagues last month, saying the policy is anti-competitive and wouldn't help working families.

However the Resources Minister has been pulled into line and now says he supports the policy in full.

β€œI accept that the view of the ACCC effectively means that we have put in place through FuelWatch, a system which guarantees transparency for consumers,” he told reporters in Canberra this morning.

β€œIt basically says to consumers that - of December this year at any time and at a given place you have the best information to actually purchase fuel.”

COMMENTS

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Watch out Kevvie - the cracks are starting to show! AND YOU CAN'T BLAME THIS ON NELSON OR THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT! Roll on "Question Time!"

Posted by: Gary Benson, Blacktown

 

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Just let me ask this again - can someone explain to me how the petrol prices will drop simply by "watching" it if the international oil prices keep rising?

Posted by: W O, Turramurra

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

WO: Unsure if you watched Question time today? But it came out that Costello commissioned a report into Fuel prices and it recommended that they adopt the WA system.This is the same report that Rudd is using to justify implementing the Fuel Watch system.

Posted by: Paul Keating The 2nd, Dapto

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Keating you stopped watching too soon. The actual ACCC report, as pointed out by Turnbull, DOES NOT RECOMMEND THE WA system. It actually says, that much more work is needed BEFORE the fuel watch system be adopted. It further advised that the WA system could increase pirces. Labor had not read the report in its entirety. Hence the subsequent censure motion. Did you miss that? Labor still won (on party lines) but Rudd was exposed as a fraud - once again. It's getting interesting.

Posted by: Geoff Bolton, Lane Cove

 

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Michelle Grattan, from the Age, who claimed Turnbull's position on a reduction in fuel tax was a chasm with his leader, but strangely thinks it is just a misunderstanding when Ferguson dumps on the dumb policy of Rudd. I guess the crackpots have come home to comment.

Posted by: Happy Fun Ball, Carramar/Sydney

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Happy Fun Ball, Carramar/Sydney-Don't hold your breath expecting anything different from Michelle Grattan or several other journalists from the Fairfax press-you will expire.

Posted by: Desmond Harris, Beacon Hill

 
 

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