❓ A parliamentary question regarding the re-establishment of the petroleum products advisory committee, specifically concerning regional representation and the prioritization of wholesale price issues over retail price capping. The Minister's response confirms regional representation and addresses both wholesale and retail pricing concerns.
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PETROLEUM PRODUCTS PRICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE, RE-ESTABLISHMENT
I refer to the re-establishment of the petroleum products advisory committee. (1) How many people are on the committee, how many of them are regional representatives, and what areas do they represent? (2) Will the minister direct the committee to concentrate on the wholesale price issue before it considers capping retail prices in regional areas? Mr KOBELKE
I refer to the re-establishment of the petroleum products advisory committee. (1) How many people are on the committee, how many of them are regional representatives, and what areas do they represent? (2) Will the minister direct the committee to concentrate on the wholesale price issue before it considers capping retail prices in regional areas? Mr KOBELKE
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I thank the member for the question. (1) How did the member know that that committee had its first meeting today? It is timely that he should ask that question. Today I attended the first meeting of the petroleum products advisory committee. I am proud of the fact that, unlike the last Government, this Government has ensured that there is regional representation on that committee. When the committee was last constituted by the Court Government, it did not have any regional representatives on it. Mr Barron-Sullivan: Yes, it did. Mr KOBELKE: Who? Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
(1) How many people are on the committee, how many of them are regional representatives, and what areas do they represent? (2) Will the minister direct the committee to concentrate on the wholesale price issue before it considers capping retail prices in regional areas? Mr KOBELKE replied: I thank the member for the question. (1) How did the member know that that committee had its first meeting today? It is timely that he should ask that question. Today I attended the first meeting of the petroleum products advisory committee. I am proud of the fact that, unlike the last Government, this Government has ensured that there is regional representation on that committee. When the committee was last constituted by the Court Government, it did not have any regional representatives on it. Mr Barron-Sullivan: Yes, it did. Mr KOBELKE: Who? Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
(2) Will the minister direct the committee to concentrate on the wholesale price issue before it considers capping retail prices in regional areas? Mr KOBELKE replied: I thank the member for the question. (1) How did the member know that that committee had its first meeting today? It is timely that he should ask that question. Today I attended the first meeting of the petroleum products advisory committee. I am proud of the fact that, unlike the last Government, this Government has ensured that there is regional representation on that committee. When the committee was last constituted by the Court Government, it did not have any regional representatives on it. Mr Barron-Sullivan: Yes, it did. Mr KOBELKE: Who? Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
Mr KOBELKE replied: I thank the member for the question. (1) How did the member know that that committee had its first meeting today? It is timely that he should ask that question. Today I attended the first meeting of the petroleum products advisory committee. I am proud of the fact that, unlike the last Government, this Government has ensured that there is regional representation on that committee. When the committee was last constituted by the Court Government, it did not have any regional representatives on it. Mr Barron-Sullivan: Yes, it did. Mr KOBELKE: Who? Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
I thank the member for the question. (1) How did the member know that that committee had its first meeting today? It is timely that he should ask that question. Today I attended the first meeting of the petroleum products advisory committee. I am proud of the fact that, unlike the last Government, this Government has ensured that there is regional representation on that committee. When the committee was last constituted by the Court Government, it did not have any regional representatives on it. Mr Barron-Sullivan: Yes, it did. Mr KOBELKE: Who? Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
(1) How did the member know that that committee had its first meeting today? It is timely that he should ask that question. Today I attended the first meeting of the petroleum products advisory committee. I am proud of the fact that, unlike the last Government, this Government has ensured that there is regional representation on that committee. When the committee was last constituted by the Court Government, it did not have any regional representatives on it. Mr Barron-Sullivan: Yes, it did. Mr KOBELKE: Who? Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
Mr Barron-Sullivan: Yes, it did. Mr KOBELKE: Who? Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
Mr KOBELKE: Who? Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
(2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
(1) How many people are on the committee, how many of them are regional representatives, and what areas do they represent? (2) Will the minister direct the committee to concentrate on the wholesale price issue before it considers capping retail prices in regional areas? Mr KOBELKE replied: I thank the member for the question. (1) How did the member know that that committee had its first meeting today? It is timely that he should ask that question. Today I attended the first meeting of the petroleum products advisory committee. I am proud of the fact that, unlike the last Government, this Government has ensured that there is regional representation on that committee. When the committee was last constituted by the Court Government, it did not have any regional representatives on it. Mr Barron-Sullivan: Yes, it did. Mr KOBELKE: Who? Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
(2) Will the minister direct the committee to concentrate on the wholesale price issue before it considers capping retail prices in regional areas? Mr KOBELKE replied: I thank the member for the question. (1) How did the member know that that committee had its first meeting today? It is timely that he should ask that question. Today I attended the first meeting of the petroleum products advisory committee. I am proud of the fact that, unlike the last Government, this Government has ensured that there is regional representation on that committee. When the committee was last constituted by the Court Government, it did not have any regional representatives on it. Mr Barron-Sullivan: Yes, it did. Mr KOBELKE: Who? Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
Mr KOBELKE replied: I thank the member for the question. (1) How did the member know that that committee had its first meeting today? It is timely that he should ask that question. Today I attended the first meeting of the petroleum products advisory committee. I am proud of the fact that, unlike the last Government, this Government has ensured that there is regional representation on that committee. When the committee was last constituted by the Court Government, it did not have any regional representatives on it. Mr Barron-Sullivan: Yes, it did. Mr KOBELKE: Who? Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
I thank the member for the question. (1) How did the member know that that committee had its first meeting today? It is timely that he should ask that question. Today I attended the first meeting of the petroleum products advisory committee. I am proud of the fact that, unlike the last Government, this Government has ensured that there is regional representation on that committee. When the committee was last constituted by the Court Government, it did not have any regional representatives on it. Mr Barron-Sullivan: Yes, it did. Mr KOBELKE: Who? Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
(1) How did the member know that that committee had its first meeting today? It is timely that he should ask that question. Today I attended the first meeting of the petroleum products advisory committee. I am proud of the fact that, unlike the last Government, this Government has ensured that there is regional representation on that committee. When the committee was last constituted by the Court Government, it did not have any regional representatives on it. Mr Barron-Sullivan: Yes, it did. Mr KOBELKE: Who? Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
Mr Barron-Sullivan: Yes, it did. Mr KOBELKE: Who? Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
Mr KOBELKE: Who? Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
Mr Barron-Sullivan: A person from Bunbury. Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
Mr KOBELKE: That person might have been on the committee in the early stages, but not when we came into government. I am sure that the member for Mitchell will be happy to know that the chairperson of the committee is a small business proprietor and Bunbury city councillor, Ms Marg Lane. Mrs Terry Ackland from Moora is co-owner of a farming property and local business. She is an active member of the local community - I am sure she is known to the member - and is a regional representative on the Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Therefore, two people who specifically come from rural or regional Western Australia and who also have connections to small business are on that committee. In addition, there are people on the committee from the representative organisation of the franchises, the Motor Trade Association of Western Australia, the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the RAC of WA. They have indirect representation from the regions. However, we have ensured that there are two members on that committee who are based in rural Western Australia. (2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
(2) The second part of the question asked that the wholesale pricing issue be looked at before consideration is given to capping the retail price in regional areas. Both issues must be working to get the full effect. We are continuing to work on the maximum wholesale price. That regime is in place. Fuel is available below the maximum wholesale price. I am not convinced that it is working as effectively as it should be. We are still waiting for reports from the forensic auditors. There is a huge issue regarding the specifications, and that impacts directly on the availability of fuel at the maximum wholesale price. We are starting the program of working up the capping for rural and regional Western Australia. Work on that is being done. However, as I have said previously in this place, we would not put that capping in place until we were guaranteed that fuel was available at the maximum wholesale price. Putting the two together will give us the benefit necessary to reduce an unacceptable disparity in the price of fuel between metropolitan Perth and outside Perth.
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