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Environment and Transport and City Services—Standing Committee
Reporting date
MS ORR (Yerrabi) (11.46): I move:
That the resolution of the Assembly of 29 November 2018 relating to the referral of a new Territory Coat of Arms to the Standing Committee on Environment and Transport and City Services be amended by omitting the words “by 6 June 2019” and substituting “by 1 August 2019”.
Briefly, the motion is just requesting an extension of the reporting date from 6 June to 1 August 2019.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Fuel Pricing—Select Committee
Reporting date
MS CHEYNE (Ginninderra) (11.47): I move:
That the resolution of the Assembly of 14 February 2019 relating to the referral of issues related to fuel pricing in the ACT to a select committee be amended by omitting the words “last sitting week in June 2019” and substituting “17 September 2019”.
The committee is seeking the Assembly’s agreement to an extension of time to our inquiry for a number of reasons. Madam Assistant Speaker, as you are aware, the committee has been working extremely hard to uncover exactly why fuel prices are what they are in the ACT and to explore what can be done about it.
The committee has held seven public hearings as well as met with stakeholders in Victoria and WA to better understand their views about the approaches those states have taken. We have received hundreds of submissions, largely via our survey, which has received over 300 contributions. This has been incredibly helpful for us in understanding the impact of fuel prices on everyday Canberrans. I thank the community for their interest, attention and efforts in assisting us.
I also thank the media for their continued attention and reporting on this very important issue. Indeed, there has been some commentary that the existence of this inquiry and the reporting on it has actually brought prices down a little bit. We have been able to put to bed the myths that the ACT government charges a fuel tax—it does not—and that the ACT has a price cycle—we do not. In fact, several times in the course of this inquiry the prices of fuel in metropolitan areas like Sydney have been significantly higher than in the ACT.
One of the particularly tricky things, though, is that the committee has had to test a number of statements and contributions made to it during the inquiry. As is painfully
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