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Petrol, diesel & LPG prices

An ACCC submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee inquiry into the price of petrol in Australia, providing information on several issues in the petroleum industry to explain the...
Published: 13th October 2006. Electronic: free; Printed: free.

The ACCC has conducted a review of the tying of petrol discounts to grocery sales by both Coles Myer Ltd and Woolworths Limited. It found that the introduction of the shopper docket schemes has enc...
Published: 6th February 2004. Electronic: free.

In response to the Reducing fuel price variability report, the Australian government requested the ACCC to continue monitoring and report back by the end of 2002 on the outcomes of the fuel pricing...
Published: 31st December 2002. Electronic: free.

In early March 2001 the government asked the ACCC to examine the feasibility of placing limitations on petrol and diesel retail price fluctuations throughout Australia. The government's response t...
Published: 31st December 2001. Electronic: free; Printed: $20.

This report was written in response to a request from the Hon. Joe Hockey, MP, Minister for Financial Services and Regulation on 30 August 1999 asking the ACCC to consider how international cr...
Published: 31st October 1999. Electronic: free.

Published: 18th December 2007. Electronic: free; Printed: $20.00.

This report examines the petroleum products declaration under the Prices Surveillance Act 1983 (which has since been repealed and replaced with a new Part VIIA in the Trade Practices Act ...
Published: 31st August 1996. Printed: $20.

The Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs, the Hon. Chris Bowen MP directed the ACCC to monitor the prices, costs and profits of unleaded petrol products for a perio...
Published: 22nd December 2008. Electronic: free; Printed: $20.

This report examines movements in the prices of unleaded petrol, diesel and automotive LPG in the first three months of the New Tax System.
Published: 20th October 2000. Electronic: free.

In August 2006 the Treasurer asked the ACCC to provide quarterly reports on the differential between E10 and unleaded petrol prices. The ACCC provided four reports on a quarterly basis until Septem...
Published: 31st July 2009. Electronic: free.

Published: 10th May 2010. Electronic: free; Printed: free.

This fact sheet explains the factors that influence the price of unleaded petrol in Australia.
Published: 15th September 2009. Electronic: free; Printed: free.

This fact sheet explains the factors that influence the price of diesel fuel in Australia, including why diesel is sometimes more expensive than unleaded petrol.
Published: 15th September 2009. Electronic: free; Printed: free.

This fact sheet explains the factors that influence the price of automotive liquefied petroleum gas in Australia, including why automotive LPG prices can vary widely around the country.
Published: 15th September 2009. Electronic: free; Printed: free.

This fact sheet explains the existence of price cycles in fuel markets in Australia, including what they are, the factors that influence price cycles, where they occur and how consumers can benefit...
Published: 15th September 2009. Electronic: free; Printed: free.

This fact sheet outlines why fuel prices differ in between the city and the country and between country towns.
Published: 15th September 2009. Electronic: free; Printed: free.

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