Statement from Transport and Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey

The LNP’s knee jerk pledge to have a state-run website and create a new layer of bureaucratic red tape will do nothing to bring down petrol prices and only duplicate market based services.

Queenslanders already have access to a variety of commercially generated, real-time, fuel monitoring services like MotorMouth and Gas Buddy.

In fact, on August 8, 2013, the LNP’s current Transport and Mains Roads Shadow - the Member for Chatsworth - ridiculed previous attempts at national, real-time petrol price monitoring.

The Leader of the Opposition should be pressuring her federal LNP leader Malcolm Turnbull to ensure the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has the powers and legislation it needs to act on this national issue.

I have written to the Treasurer about this previously and it’s about time the LNP in Queensland do the same.

Duplicating an existing service that already exists proves the LNP still has no plan for Queenslanders.