Tom Crowley

And what would that look like?

As far as why we have a fuel excise, it's often linked, at least in the minds of policymakers and politicians, to road funding.

The rationale for the tax is that people who use the roads, they should pay in some way for that usage of the roads, and therefore we have a fuel excise.

In reality, it's not as if the funding of roads is tied to the fuel excise.

As such, that's always been more of a rhetorical device than anything

than anything actual.

But it's an excise.

It's, you know, much like many other different products.

It's just one of those things that I suppose is easy to tax, is a reliable, has been a reliable source of government revenue for some time.

This is not an unprecedented move.

It's actually becoming quite a drearily regular move during crises to cut the fuel excise temporarily.

Yes, and then backtracked relatively quickly.

I mean, Angus Taylor called for this, I think it was on Friday of last week, and then by Monday it was the government's policy.

It's also something Peter Dutton took to the last election.

It's always tempting.

It's sitting there, right?

I mean, I think I heard someone else say this the other day, that the fuel price...

When we're talking broadly about cost of living pressures, it's the most salient cost.

It's flashing up on signs literally as you drive past it.

You see when it goes up.