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No, a market study won’t fix petrol prices

The government’s response is political posturing.

Tim Hunter
 Fri, 19 Oct 2018

Don’t worry, everything will be fine. The government is rushing the Commerce Amendment Bill through Parliament and then there will be a market study on petrol prices and the problem will be fixed in two shakes of a lamb’s tail.

If you believe the previous paragraph you were born yesterday

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