❓ Opposition questions the Minister on the delayed implementation of the new fuel pricing system and lack of prosecution/auditing. Minister defends the government's approach, citing progress and a strategic, legally sound implementation.
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FUEL PRICING, NEW SYSTEM 356. Mr BARRON-SULLIVAN to the Minister for Consumer and Employment Protection: I refer to the minister’s admission a few minutes ago that the Government has failed to implement the new fuel pricing system some five months after it was introduced, and ask - (1) Will the minister prosecute oil companies for failing to comply with the transparency requirements? (2) Why did the minister not engage forensic auditors four months ago when the Liberal Party suggested it? Mr KOBELKE
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(1)-(2) I believe the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that the Government has not had success in getting full compliance. We are continuing to implement a range of measures of the new fuel pricing system. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition fails to recognise that the Government is not about playing politics in this place. We are about putting in place a regulatory regime that does not exist anywhere else in Australia. We are ahead of the game. The reports that I receive, which are reported to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, indicate that there has been more stability in Western Australia since the system was implemented and that numbers of service stations are able to sell fuel at lower prices than in other capital cities. We are therefore making some headway. The point of the question is that we have a long way to go. As I indicated in answer to a previous question, we have not succeeded. We know that fuel is not yet available at the maximum wholesale price and we will continue to pursue that matter. I also indicated in answer to the earlier question that some companies have not complied with the requirement that invoices reflect all price components. That requirement was put in place only in August. We have sought the cooperation of people to do forensic accounting. As I indicated in my earlier answer, it is not as easy as it appears to get people who do not have a conflict of interest with the oil companies to tender in compliance with that request. When we get that compliance, we will ask those people to examine the oil companies’ accounts and we will use that evidence in any prosecution. We are not standing back. We are totally determined to succeed. A “softly, softly catchee monkey” attitude is much better than issuing political headlines and grandstanding. No other State has taken on the major oil companies and won. We have taken them on and we will win. Political attacks on us will not steer us off the target of taking it slowly so that the oil companies and other people who do not wish to comply have little or no chance of mounting a case in the courts that we did not give them time to comply. They will not be able to say that we were not totally open and transparent in our dealings with them or that we did not ensure that they could come up to those standards in such a way that will stand up in the courts. Yes, it is taking far too long for my liking, for the Opposition’s liking and for the liking of motorists. However, we will stay on that course and will not resile from it. I am confident that we will succeed but we will do it to a timetable that will win, not one that gives us political headlines.
FUEL PRICING, NEW SYSTEM
I refer to the minister’s admission a few minutes ago that the Government has failed to implement the new fuel pricing system some five months after it was introduced, and ask - (1) Will the minister prosecute oil companies for failing to comply with the transparency requirements? (2) Why did the minister not engage forensic auditors four months ago when the Liberal Party suggested it? Mr KOBELKE replied: (1)-(2) I believe the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that the Government has not had success in getting full compliance. We are continuing to implement a range of measures of the new fuel pricing system. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition fails to recognise that the Government is not about playing politics in this place. We are about putting in place a regulatory regime that does not exist anywhere else in Australia. We are ahead of the game. The reports that I receive, which are reported to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, indicate that there has been more stability in Western Australia since the system was implemented and that numbers of service stations are able to sell fuel at lower prices than in other capital cities. We are therefore making some headway. The point of the question is that we have a long way to go. As I indicated in answer to a previous question, we have not succeeded. We know that fuel is not yet available at the maximum wholesale price and we will continue to pursue that matter. I also indicated in answer to the earlier question that some companies have not complied with the requirement that invoices reflect all price components. That requirement was put in place only in August. We have sought the cooperation of people to do forensic accounting. As I indicated in my earlier answer, it is not as easy as it appears to get people who do not have a conflict of interest with the oil companies to tender in compliance with that request. When we get that compliance, we will ask those people to examine the oil companies’ accounts and we will use that evidence in any prosecution. We are not standing back. We are totally determined to succeed. A “softly, softly catchee monkey” attitude is much better than issuing political headlines and grandstanding. No other State has taken on the major oil companies and won. We have taken them on and we will win. Political attacks on us will not steer us off the target of taking it slowly so that the oil companies and other people who do not wish to comply have little or no chance of mounting a case in the courts that we did not give them time to comply. They will not be able to say that we were not totally open and transparent in our dealings with them or that we did not ensure that they could come up to those standards in such a way that will stand up in the courts. Yes, it is taking far too long for my liking, for the Opposition’s liking and for the liking of motorists. However, we will stay on that course and will not resile from it. I am confident that we will succeed but we will do it to a timetable that will win, not one that gives us political headlines.
(1) Will the minister prosecute oil companies for failing to comply with the transparency requirements? (2) Why did the minister not engage forensic auditors four months ago when the Liberal Party suggested it? Mr KOBELKE replied: (1)-(2) I believe the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that the Government has not had success in getting full compliance. We are continuing to implement a range of measures of the new fuel pricing system. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition fails to recognise that the Government is not about playing politics in this place. We are about putting in place a regulatory regime that does not exist anywhere else in Australia. We are ahead of the game. The reports that I receive, which are reported to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, indicate that there has been more stability in Western Australia since the system was implemented and that numbers of service stations are able to sell fuel at lower prices than in other capital cities. We are therefore making some headway. The point of the question is that we have a long way to go. As I indicated in answer to a previous question, we have not succeeded. We know that fuel is not yet available at the maximum wholesale price and we will continue to pursue that matter. I also indicated in answer to the earlier question that some companies have not complied with the requirement that invoices reflect all price components. That requirement was put in place only in August. We have sought the cooperation of people to do forensic accounting. As I indicated in my earlier answer, it is not as easy as it appears to get people who do not have a conflict of interest with the oil companies to tender in compliance with that request. When we get that compliance, we will ask those people to examine the oil companies’ accounts and we will use that evidence in any prosecution. We are not standing back. We are totally determined to succeed. A “softly, softly catchee monkey” attitude is much better than issuing political headlines and grandstanding. No other State has taken on the major oil companies and won. We have taken them on and we will win. Political attacks on us will not steer us off the target of taking it slowly so that the oil companies and other people who do not wish to comply have little or no chance of mounting a case in the courts that we did not give them time to comply. They will not be able to say that we were not totally open and transparent in our dealings with them or that we did not ensure that they could come up to those standards in such a way that will stand up in the courts. Yes, it is taking far too long for my liking, for the Opposition’s liking and for the liking of motorists. However, we will stay on that course and will not resile from it. I am confident that we will succeed but we will do it to a timetable that will win, not one that gives us political headlines.
(2) Why did the minister not engage forensic auditors four months ago when the Liberal Party suggested it? Mr KOBELKE replied: (1)-(2) I believe the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that the Government has not had success in getting full compliance. We are continuing to implement a range of measures of the new fuel pricing system. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition fails to recognise that the Government is not about playing politics in this place. We are about putting in place a regulatory regime that does not exist anywhere else in Australia. We are ahead of the game. The reports that I receive, which are reported to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, indicate that there has been more stability in Western Australia since the system was implemented and that numbers of service stations are able to sell fuel at lower prices than in other capital cities. We are therefore making some headway. The point of the question is that we have a long way to go. As I indicated in answer to a previous question, we have not succeeded. We know that fuel is not yet available at the maximum wholesale price and we will continue to pursue that matter. I also indicated in answer to the earlier question that some companies have not complied with the requirement that invoices reflect all price components. That requirement was put in place only in August. We have sought the cooperation of people to do forensic accounting. As I indicated in my earlier answer, it is not as easy as it appears to get people who do not have a conflict of interest with the oil companies to tender in compliance with that request. When we get that compliance, we will ask those people to examine the oil companies’ accounts and we will use that evidence in any prosecution. We are not standing back. We are totally determined to succeed. A “softly, softly catchee monkey” attitude is much better than issuing political headlines and grandstanding. No other State has taken on the major oil companies and won. We have taken them on and we will win. Political attacks on us will not steer us off the target of taking it slowly so that the oil companies and other people who do not wish to comply have little or no chance of mounting a case in the courts that we did not give them time to comply. They will not be able to say that we were not totally open and transparent in our dealings with them or that we did not ensure that they could come up to those standards in such a way that will stand up in the courts. Yes, it is taking far too long for my liking, for the Opposition’s liking and for the liking of motorists. However, we will stay on that course and will not resile from it. I am confident that we will succeed but we will do it to a timetable that will win, not one that gives us political headlines.
Mr KOBELKE replied: (1)-(2) I believe the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that the Government has not had success in getting full compliance. We are continuing to implement a range of measures of the new fuel pricing system. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition fails to recognise that the Government is not about playing politics in this place. We are about putting in place a regulatory regime that does not exist anywhere else in Australia. We are ahead of the game. The reports that I receive, which are reported to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, indicate that there has been more stability in Western Australia since the system was implemented and that numbers of service stations are able to sell fuel at lower prices than in other capital cities. We are therefore making some headway. The point of the question is that we have a long way to go. As I indicated in answer to a previous question, we have not succeeded. We know that fuel is not yet available at the maximum wholesale price and we will continue to pursue that matter. I also indicated in answer to the earlier question that some companies have not complied with the requirement that invoices reflect all price components. That requirement was put in place only in August. We have sought the cooperation of people to do forensic accounting. As I indicated in my earlier answer, it is not as easy as it appears to get people who do not have a conflict of interest with the oil companies to tender in compliance with that request. When we get that compliance, we will ask those people to examine the oil companies’ accounts and we will use that evidence in any prosecution. We are not standing back. We are totally determined to succeed. A “softly, softly catchee monkey” attitude is much better than issuing political headlines and grandstanding. No other State has taken on the major oil companies and won. We have taken them on and we will win. Political attacks on us will not steer us off the target of taking it slowly so that the oil companies and other people who do not wish to comply have little or no chance of mounting a case in the courts that we did not give them time to comply. They will not be able to say that we were not totally open and transparent in our dealings with them or that we did not ensure that they could come up to those standards in such a way that will stand up in the courts. Yes, it is taking far too long for my liking, for the Opposition’s liking and for the liking of motorists. However, we will stay on that course and will not resile from it. I am confident that we will succeed but we will do it to a timetable that will win, not one that gives us political headlines.
(1)-(2) I believe the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that the Government has not had success in getting full compliance. We are continuing to implement a range of measures of the new fuel pricing system. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition fails to recognise that the Government is not about playing politics in this place. We are about putting in place a regulatory regime that does not exist anywhere else in Australia. We are ahead of the game. The reports that I receive, which are reported to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, indicate that there has been more stability in Western Australia since the system was implemented and that numbers of service stations are able to sell fuel at lower prices than in other capital cities. We are therefore making some headway. The point of the question is that we have a long way to go. As I indicated in answer to a previous question, we have not succeeded. We know that fuel is not yet available at the maximum wholesale price and we will continue to pursue that matter. I also indicated in answer to the earlier question that some companies have not complied with the requirement that invoices reflect all price components. That requirement was put in place only in August. We have sought the cooperation of people to do forensic accounting. As I indicated in my earlier answer, it is not as easy as it appears to get people who do not have a conflict of interest with the oil companies to tender in compliance with that request. When we get that compliance, we will ask those people to examine the oil companies’ accounts and we will use that evidence in any prosecution. We are not standing back. We are totally determined to succeed. A “softly, softly catchee monkey” attitude is much better than issuing political headlines and grandstanding. No other State has taken on the major oil companies and won. We have taken them on and we will win. Political attacks on us will not steer us off the target of taking it slowly so that the oil companies and other people who do not wish to comply have little or no chance of mounting a case in the courts that we did not give them time to comply. They will not be able to say that we were not totally open and transparent in our dealings with them or that we did not ensure that they could come up to those standards in such a way that will stand up in the courts. Yes, it is taking far too long for my liking, for the Opposition’s liking and for the liking of motorists. However, we will stay on that course and will not resile from it. I am confident that we will succeed but we will do it to a timetable that will win, not one that gives us political headlines.
I also indicated in answer to the earlier question that some companies have not complied with the requirement that invoices reflect all price components. That requirement was put in place only in August. We have sought the cooperation of people to do forensic accounting. As I indicated in my earlier answer, it is not as easy as it appears to get people who do not have a conflict of interest with the oil companies to tender in compliance with that request. When we get that compliance, we will ask those people to examine the oil companies’ accounts and we will use that evidence in any prosecution. We are not standing back. We are totally determined to succeed. A “softly, softly catchee monkey” attitude is much better than issuing political headlines and grandstanding. No other State has taken on the major oil companies and won. We have taken them on and we will win. Political attacks on us will not steer us off the target of taking it slowly so that the oil companies and other people who do not wish to comply have little or no chance of mounting a case in the courts that we did not give them time to comply. They will not be able to say that we were not totally open and transparent in our dealings with them or that we did not ensure that they could come up to those standards in such a way that will stand up in the courts. Yes, it is taking far too long for my liking, for the Opposition’s liking and for the liking of motorists. However, we will stay on that course and will not resile from it. I am confident that we will succeed but we will do it to a timetable that will win, not one that gives us political headlines.
FUEL PRICING, NEW SYSTEM
I refer to the minister’s admission a few minutes ago that the Government has failed to implement the new fuel pricing system some five months after it was introduced, and ask - (1) Will the minister prosecute oil companies for failing to comply with the transparency requirements? (2) Why did the minister not engage forensic auditors four months ago when the Liberal Party suggested it? Mr KOBELKE replied: (1)-(2) I believe the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that the Government has not had success in getting full compliance. We are continuing to implement a range of measures of the new fuel pricing system. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition fails to recognise that the Government is not about playing politics in this place. We are about putting in place a regulatory regime that does not exist anywhere else in Australia. We are ahead of the game. The reports that I receive, which are reported to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, indicate that there has been more stability in Western Australia since the system was implemented and that numbers of service stations are able to sell fuel at lower prices than in other capital cities. We are therefore making some headway. The point of the question is that we have a long way to go. As I indicated in answer to a previous question, we have not succeeded. We know that fuel is not yet available at the maximum wholesale price and we will continue to pursue that matter. I also indicated in answer to the earlier question that some companies have not complied with the requirement that invoices reflect all price components. That requirement was put in place only in August. We have sought the cooperation of people to do forensic accounting. As I indicated in my earlier answer, it is not as easy as it appears to get people who do not have a conflict of interest with the oil companies to tender in compliance with that request. When we get that compliance, we will ask those people to examine the oil companies’ accounts and we will use that evidence in any prosecution. We are not standing back. We are totally determined to succeed. A “softly, softly catchee monkey” attitude is much better than issuing political headlines and grandstanding. No other State has taken on the major oil companies and won. We have taken them on and we will win. Political attacks on us will not steer us off the target of taking it slowly so that the oil companies and other people who do not wish to comply have little or no chance of mounting a case in the courts that we did not give them time to comply. They will not be able to say that we were not totally open and transparent in our dealings with them or that we did not ensure that they could come up to those standards in such a way that will stand up in the courts. Yes, it is taking far too long for my liking, for the Opposition’s liking and for the liking of motorists. However, we will stay on that course and will not resile from it. I am confident that we will succeed but we will do it to a timetable that will win, not one that gives us political headlines.
(1) Will the minister prosecute oil companies for failing to comply with the transparency requirements? (2) Why did the minister not engage forensic auditors four months ago when the Liberal Party suggested it? Mr KOBELKE replied: (1)-(2) I believe the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that the Government has not had success in getting full compliance. We are continuing to implement a range of measures of the new fuel pricing system. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition fails to recognise that the Government is not about playing politics in this place. We are about putting in place a regulatory regime that does not exist anywhere else in Australia. We are ahead of the game. The reports that I receive, which are reported to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, indicate that there has been more stability in Western Australia since the system was implemented and that numbers of service stations are able to sell fuel at lower prices than in other capital cities. We are therefore making some headway. The point of the question is that we have a long way to go. As I indicated in answer to a previous question, we have not succeeded. We know that fuel is not yet available at the maximum wholesale price and we will continue to pursue that matter. I also indicated in answer to the earlier question that some companies have not complied with the requirement that invoices reflect all price components. That requirement was put in place only in August. We have sought the cooperation of people to do forensic accounting. As I indicated in my earlier answer, it is not as easy as it appears to get people who do not have a conflict of interest with the oil companies to tender in compliance with that request. When we get that compliance, we will ask those people to examine the oil companies’ accounts and we will use that evidence in any prosecution. We are not standing back. We are totally determined to succeed. A “softly, softly catchee monkey” attitude is much better than issuing political headlines and grandstanding. No other State has taken on the major oil companies and won. We have taken them on and we will win. Political attacks on us will not steer us off the target of taking it slowly so that the oil companies and other people who do not wish to comply have little or no chance of mounting a case in the courts that we did not give them time to comply. They will not be able to say that we were not totally open and transparent in our dealings with them or that we did not ensure that they could come up to those standards in such a way that will stand up in the courts. Yes, it is taking far too long for my liking, for the Opposition’s liking and for the liking of motorists. However, we will stay on that course and will not resile from it. I am confident that we will succeed but we will do it to a timetable that will win, not one that gives us political headlines.
(2) Why did the minister not engage forensic auditors four months ago when the Liberal Party suggested it? Mr KOBELKE replied: (1)-(2) I believe the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that the Government has not had success in getting full compliance. We are continuing to implement a range of measures of the new fuel pricing system. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition fails to recognise that the Government is not about playing politics in this place. We are about putting in place a regulatory regime that does not exist anywhere else in Australia. We are ahead of the game. The reports that I receive, which are reported to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, indicate that there has been more stability in Western Australia since the system was implemented and that numbers of service stations are able to sell fuel at lower prices than in other capital cities. We are therefore making some headway. The point of the question is that we have a long way to go. As I indicated in answer to a previous question, we have not succeeded. We know that fuel is not yet available at the maximum wholesale price and we will continue to pursue that matter. I also indicated in answer to the earlier question that some companies have not complied with the requirement that invoices reflect all price components. That requirement was put in place only in August. We have sought the cooperation of people to do forensic accounting. As I indicated in my earlier answer, it is not as easy as it appears to get people who do not have a conflict of interest with the oil companies to tender in compliance with that request. When we get that compliance, we will ask those people to examine the oil companies’ accounts and we will use that evidence in any prosecution. We are not standing back. We are totally determined to succeed. A “softly, softly catchee monkey” attitude is much better than issuing political headlines and grandstanding. No other State has taken on the major oil companies and won. We have taken them on and we will win. Political attacks on us will not steer us off the target of taking it slowly so that the oil companies and other people who do not wish to comply have little or no chance of mounting a case in the courts that we did not give them time to comply. They will not be able to say that we were not totally open and transparent in our dealings with them or that we did not ensure that they could come up to those standards in such a way that will stand up in the courts. Yes, it is taking far too long for my liking, for the Opposition’s liking and for the liking of motorists. However, we will stay on that course and will not resile from it. I am confident that we will succeed but we will do it to a timetable that will win, not one that gives us political headlines.
Mr KOBELKE replied: (1)-(2) I believe the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that the Government has not had success in getting full compliance. We are continuing to implement a range of measures of the new fuel pricing system. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition fails to recognise that the Government is not about playing politics in this place. We are about putting in place a regulatory regime that does not exist anywhere else in Australia. We are ahead of the game. The reports that I receive, which are reported to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, indicate that there has been more stability in Western Australia since the system was implemented and that numbers of service stations are able to sell fuel at lower prices than in other capital cities. We are therefore making some headway. The point of the question is that we have a long way to go. As I indicated in answer to a previous question, we have not succeeded. We know that fuel is not yet available at the maximum wholesale price and we will continue to pursue that matter. I also indicated in answer to the earlier question that some companies have not complied with the requirement that invoices reflect all price components. That requirement was put in place only in August. We have sought the cooperation of people to do forensic accounting. As I indicated in my earlier answer, it is not as easy as it appears to get people who do not have a conflict of interest with the oil companies to tender in compliance with that request. When we get that compliance, we will ask those people to examine the oil companies’ accounts and we will use that evidence in any prosecution. We are not standing back. We are totally determined to succeed. A “softly, softly catchee monkey” attitude is much better than issuing political headlines and grandstanding. No other State has taken on the major oil companies and won. We have taken them on and we will win. Political attacks on us will not steer us off the target of taking it slowly so that the oil companies and other people who do not wish to comply have little or no chance of mounting a case in the courts that we did not give them time to comply. They will not be able to say that we were not totally open and transparent in our dealings with them or that we did not ensure that they could come up to those standards in such a way that will stand up in the courts. Yes, it is taking far too long for my liking, for the Opposition’s liking and for the liking of motorists. However, we will stay on that course and will not resile from it. I am confident that we will succeed but we will do it to a timetable that will win, not one that gives us political headlines.
(1)-(2) I believe the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is suggesting that the Government has not had success in getting full compliance. We are continuing to implement a range of measures of the new fuel pricing system. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition fails to recognise that the Government is not about playing politics in this place. We are about putting in place a regulatory regime that does not exist anywhere else in Australia. We are ahead of the game. The reports that I receive, which are reported to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, indicate that there has been more stability in Western Australia since the system was implemented and that numbers of service stations are able to sell fuel at lower prices than in other capital cities. We are therefore making some headway. The point of the question is that we have a long way to go. As I indicated in answer to a previous question, we have not succeeded. We know that fuel is not yet available at the maximum wholesale price and we will continue to pursue that matter. I also indicated in answer to the earlier question that some companies have not complied with the requirement that invoices reflect all price components. That requirement was put in place only in August. We have sought the cooperation of people to do forensic accounting. As I indicated in my earlier answer, it is not as easy as it appears to get people who do not have a conflict of interest with the oil companies to tender in compliance with that request. When we get that compliance, we will ask those people to examine the oil companies’ accounts and we will use that evidence in any prosecution. We are not standing back. We are totally determined to succeed. A “softly, softly catchee monkey” attitude is much better than issuing political headlines and grandstanding. No other State has taken on the major oil companies and won. We have taken them on and we will win. Political attacks on us will not steer us off the target of taking it slowly so that the oil companies and other people who do not wish to comply have little or no chance of mounting a case in the courts that we did not give them time to comply. They will not be able to say that we were not totally open and transparent in our dealings with them or that we did not ensure that they could come up to those standards in such a way that will stand up in the courts. Yes, it is taking far too long for my liking, for the Opposition’s liking and for the liking of motorists. However, we will stay on that course and will not resile from it. I am confident that we will succeed but we will do it to a timetable that will win, not one that gives us political headlines.
I also indicated in answer to the earlier question that some companies have not complied with the requirement that invoices reflect all price components. That requirement was put in place only in August. We have sought the cooperation of people to do forensic accounting. As I indicated in my earlier answer, it is not as easy as it appears to get people who do not have a conflict of interest with the oil companies to tender in compliance with that request. When we get that compliance, we will ask those people to examine the oil companies’ accounts and we will use that evidence in any prosecution. We are not standing back. We are totally determined to succeed. A “softly, softly catchee monkey” attitude is much better than issuing political headlines and grandstanding. No other State has taken on the major oil companies and won. We have taken them on and we will win. Political attacks on us will not steer us off the target of taking it slowly so that the oil companies and other people who do not wish to comply have little or no chance of mounting a case in the courts that we did not give them time to comply. They will not be able to say that we were not totally open and transparent in our dealings with them or that we did not ensure that they could come up to those standards in such a way that will stand up in the courts. Yes, it is taking far too long for my liking, for the Opposition’s liking and for the liking of motorists. However, we will stay on that course and will not resile from it. I am confident that we will succeed but we will do it to a timetable that will win, not one that gives us political headlines.
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