{"id":368827,"date":"2026-04-01T05:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/368827\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:41:09","slug":"petrol-and-diesel-prices-fall-across-australia-as-labors-fuel-excise-cut-takes-effect-petrol-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/368827\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol and diesel prices fall across Australia as Labor\u2019s fuel excise cut takes effect | Petrol prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fuel prices have started falling immediately across Australia in the wake of the government\u2019s fuel excise cut, unexpectedly accelerating the delivery of the Albanese government\u2019s cost-of-living relief.<\/p>\n

Prices in capital cities paused then plummeted on Wednesday, after the prime minister announced the tax on petrol and diesel would be halved to 26.3 cents a litre.<\/p>\n

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Unleaded prices fell 16 cents a litre on average across the country on Wednesday, with prices sitting between 243 and 245 cents a litre on average in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, NRMA data showed. Diesel fell from 323.5 cents to 311.1 cents on average across the country.<\/p>\n

Adelaide saw the biggest falls, with diesel down 21.3 cents and unleaded down 24.9 cents \u2013 almost equal to the entire fuel excise cut.<\/p>\n

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The excise was only cut on Wednesday and was expected to take days or weeks to flow through to retail prices<\/a> as petrol stations would have to first sell their stocks of more expensive fuel, bought prior to the cut.<\/p>\n

Instead, service stations have immediately dropped prices, on average, even for the stocks bought with the full 52.6 cent per litre charge.<\/p>\n

Ampol confirmed it had decided to pass on the full 26.3 cent reduction to some of its stations from Wednesday morning, with the rest of the Ampol stations to pass on the cut over the course of the day.<\/p>\n

Petrol prices had been rising almost every day in Australia\u2019s capital cities since the start of March, according to Informed Sources data.<\/p>\n

Even before the excise announcement, though, the market plateaued, with prices holding steady from the weekend in Sydney and Brisbane.<\/p>\n

From Friday to Tuesday, unleaded held steady in Adelaide at about 259 cents a litre and in Darwin at 264 cents, and fell in Hobart, from 260 cents to 257.5. It fell in Perth from 258.3 cents to 251.7 from Thursday to Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Fuel shortages have also eased, with the number of service stations out of at least one fuel type falling on Wednesday, reversing a persistent rise, according to Guardian Australia analysis.<\/p>\n

In New South Wales, 30 stations were out of all types of fuel on Wednesday, down from 61 on Tuesday, while 207 had no diesel, down from 247, the state premier, Chris Minns, said.<\/p>\n

As at 9am Monday, 75 fuel stations in NSW were out of all types of fuel and 242 stations were out of diesel.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy strong suspicion is that that\u2019s as a result of consumers waiting for the excise to be cut before they fill up their tank,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s come at a good time in the run-up to the Easter long weekend, it says to me that there\u2019ll be fuel available and that you shouldn\u2019t cancel your plans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thousands of vehicles had disappeared from Sydney\u2019s roads<\/a> over the month of March, suggesting motorists had started to cut back on buying petrol.<\/p>\n

NSW government data shows Pennant Hills Road traffic in the last full week of March fell 2.6% from late February, before war in Iran sent petrol prices surging, or 5% from the same week in the prior year.<\/p>\n

Compared to the previous year, traffic fell by 4.4% on Victoria Road, 2.3% on Parramatta Road and 1.8% on Military Road. On Anzac Parade in Sydney\u2019s east, traffic had been elevated in late February, 5% higher than the year before but by the end of March it was running 1% lower.<\/p>\n

The streets around Sydney airport have also emptied out. Traffic counts fell down 9% on Airport Drive and 5% on Qantas Drive from the last week of February to the last full week of March.<\/p>\n

Public transport usage has barely changed in NSW, with just under 2.38m average weekday Opal network trips in the last full week of March \u2013 the same as in 2025.<\/p>\n

– Additional reporting by Penry Buckley and Josh Nicholas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fuel prices have started falling immediately across Australia in the wake of the government\u2019s fuel excise cut, unexpectedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-368827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}