00:02Whether it's at the petrol pump...
00:04Bloody oh, driving around all day, it's hard.
00:07...on the pavement...
00:08I'm really hoping something gives soon.
00:09...or in the parliament, patience is wearing thin.
00:13This conflict is now in its fifth week.
00:16It's been going a long time.
00:18With no end in sight, the government's spending billions
00:22to provide a bit of relief,
00:24legislating its pledge to halve the fuel excise
00:27and scrap the road user charge until June 30.
00:30This bill will deliver temporary and targeted support.
00:33Motorists to save about 26 cents a litre,
00:36truck drivers 32 cents.
00:38The change to come into effect at midnight,
00:41but a warning, it'll take time to filter through.
00:44It would take somewhere between maybe one and two weeks
00:47for the full benefit of the excise to flow through.
00:50But an added benefit discussed
00:52at yesterday's National Cabinet meeting
00:54is looking less certain.
00:56With state and territory leaders failing to agree on a plan
00:59to return windfall GST revenue
01:02to reduce petrol prices even more.
01:04The federal government's plan from last night
01:08has already fallen apart by this morning.
01:12This is the plan.
01:14The coalition attacking the Prime Minister's
01:17four-stage plan as light on detail.
01:19Are we going to have rationing?
01:21Are we not going to have rationing?
01:22A lot of the effort that we've been putting in
01:24has been about trying to avoid rationing.
01:26The government's resisted specifying the trigger
01:28for fuel rationing, but a document seen by the ABC
01:32prepared earlier in this crisis provides some insight,
01:35assuming the national stockpile would need to dwindle
01:38to 10 days down from the current 30 before fuel is restricted.
01:43For now, though, the government insists supplies are secure.
01:48To shore up crucial commodities,
01:50the government's underwriting future shipments of fuel
01:52and fertiliser as prices surge,
01:56creating a double whammy for farmers.
01:58It's tough to watch.
01:59Tough to live it.
02:01A lot of sleepless nights.
02:02Hoping green shoots will soon emerge.
02:05Four-tarmer, a little one on the list of renewable energy.
02:05Those are two-tarmer than the voltage.
02:06That is one of those twenty five months.
02:06Two-tarmer- taught-se-percepts.
02:06Next, we're going to be able to pay for fuel.
02:06Things like that,
02:06the energy associated with energy to fuel.
02:06The energy of energy to fuel and fuel.
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