FuelWatch report 'sets record straight'

A Senate committee investigating Labor's plan to force petrol retailers to publish their prices 24 hours in advance of changes published an interim report which outlined evidence it heard at public forums across the nation. Committee chairwoman Annette Hurley said the bad publicity surrounding FuelWatch was unjustified and the interim report was an attempt to set the record straight.

"FuelWatch has a lot going for it and it didn't justify some of the criticisms that were appearing about it," she told local media. "So we just wanted to set the record straight about what evidence we'd received.  It was just an attempt to get the facts straight, it was just an attempt to inform people."

Without coalition backing for the FuelWatch scheme, the government needs to turn to the seven balance of power senators (the Australian Greens, Senator Xenophon and Family First's Steve Fielding) to get the law through the Senate.

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