Prime Minister you and I both know that we'll pick up the papers tomorrow and most of the commentators from Canberra will be saying that yes the Prime Minister did this yesterday and yes there just happens to be a Ryan by-election in a couple of weeks time. What a coincidence. I listened to what people have to say, they were obviously very concerned about this issue and I came to the conclusion that the Government had to do something to demonstrate that we understood peoples anger and concern about the price of petrol. But we've gone further than that, we've actually delivered a long-term improvement in the system. And we're also going to look at a way of seeing if you can't better monitor price fluctuations.
People are very angry that the price of petrol can go up and down within a very short space of time.
But in reality Prime Minister it's not going to hurt you with a by-election coming up that you do really need to win. I'm asking if you're buying votes. What I'm saying to you is that we've delivered good policy that will benefit people and that's what today is all about. It delivers cheaper petrol, it guarantees that in future there won't be automatic increases in tax on petrol and it also offers the hope of a reformed system of taxing fuel in Australia and also the possibility of putting some kind of cap on price fluctuations. Now that's not a bad policy offering to the Australian motorist.