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State and territory leaders have agreed to a further cut in the fuel excise, bringing hope of more relief at the bowser.<\/p>\n

The Commonwealth on Monday agreed to halve the fuel excise on petrol and diesel by 26.3 cents a litre<\/a> in an effort to moderate rising prices.<\/p>\n

But National Cabinet was unable to agree on what states and territories should do with the additional GST revenue they were set to receive as a result of the higher cost of petrol and diesel.<\/p>\n

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Fuel prices have been on the rise since the Middle East conflict broke out. (ABC News: Steve Johns)<\/p>\n

On Thursday morning, premiers and chief ministers from around the nation agreed to use that extra revenue \u2014 estimated to reach around $400 million by the end of June \u2014 to fund a further 5.7 cent per litre cut in the fuel excise.<\/p>\n

It will bring the total reduction to 32 cents per litre until June 30.<\/p>\n

“This will mean cheaper fuel for families and farmers and businesses,” WA Premier Roger Cook told ABC Radio Perth.<\/p>\n

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WA Premier Cook hopes the measure will ease the pressure on families and businesses. (ABC News: Andrew O’Connor)<\/p>\n

Mr Cook, who led discussions between state and territory leaders, said it was up to the Commonwealth when that relief would flow through to drivers.<\/p>\n

“We’ve advised the Commonwealth that we’re happy to forgo that $400 million from the GST pool,” he said.<\/p>\n

“They will now need to implement what they need to do in order to make the excise changes as part of that decision.”<\/p>\n

But he said it was expected to be passed “almost immediately” by Treasurer Jim Chalmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State and territory leaders have agreed to a further cut in the fuel excise, bringing hope of more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[283615,283617,64,63,266735,843,283611,283604,6901,283610,23817,35431,283376,283603,283614,98767,27313,281768,283607,283609,265904,130870,269425,283605,283616,283613,283602,283608,130874,283618,67507,5575,12241,6827,44,19136,171289,283612,86,5520,157795,95315,9074,38238,143126,2176,45,9570,9569,6900,283606,273839,274736,274735],"class_list":["post-579855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-albanese-fuel-announcement","tag-atlas-fuel","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-fuel","tag-cars","tag-cheap-fuel","tag-cheap-fuel-perth","tag-conflict","tag-costco-fuel","tag-driving","tag-fuel","tag-fuel-australia","tag-fuel-check","tag-fuel-checker","tag-fuel-crisis","tag-fuel-excise","tag-fuel-excise-cut","tag-fuel-near-me","tag-fuel-news","tag-fuel-price","tag-fuel-prices","tag-fuel-rationing","tag-fuel-rationing-australia","tag-fuel-restrictions","tag-fuel-restrictions-australia","tag-fuel-spy","tag-fuel-tax","tag-fuel-watch","tag-fuel-watch-near-me","tag-gst","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-panic-buying","tag-perth-fuel-watch","tag-perth-news","tag-petrol","tag-petrol-stations","tag-price-gouging","tag-prices","tag-public-transport","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-supply","tag-wa-news","tag-wa-politics","tag-wa-pols","tag-war","tag-when-will-australia-run-out-of-fuel","tag-where-is-the-cheapest-fuel","tag-why-is-fuel-so-expensive","tag-why-is-petrol-so-expensive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}