Peter Dutton reveals cost-of-living measures that may 'make a real difference to families'

Navigating the ever-fluctuating landscape of fuel prices can be daunting, especially for seniors on a fixed income.

The cost of living has been a concern that touches all corners of society, and fuel expenses could take a significant bite out of monthly budgets.

Yet, there could be a glimmer of hope on the horizon for those feeling the pinch at the petrol pump.


Liberal leader Peter Dutton MP announced a bold move that could capture the voters' attention.

Dutton promised that fuel excise rates could be slashed by half if elected as Prime Minister.

His proposal was the cornerstone of the Liberals' cost-of-living measures and a direct challenge to the Labor Party to match the commitment.


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Peter Dutton stated that 2025 is an 'important year' as Australians decide for the country's future direction. Image Credit: Instagram/Peter Dutton


The proposed cut would see a substantial 25-cent reduction in fuel excise for a year.

This cut could bring the rate down from 50.8 cents to 25.4 cents per litre for both petrol and diesel.

'The Coalition is committed to supporting families and businesses and alleviating the cost-of-living pressure that everyone, right across the country, is feeling right now,' Mr Dutton stated.

'If elected, we will halve fuel excise for 12 months. And if elected, we will deliver this cost-of-living relief immediately—whereas people have to wait fifteen months for Labor's 70 cents a day tax tweak.'


'This cost-of-living relief will make a real difference to families and small businesses—everyone from tradies to mums and dads, to older Australians, and to transport delivery workers,' Mr Dutton promised.

The savings for Australian households could be significant.

A single-vehicle household refuelling once a week could pocket an extra $14 weekly.

Over a year, this could add up to around $700 to $750.

For those with two cars, the savings could double to approximately $1500 annually.

'The commute to work, taking the kids to school or sport, the family drive, or the trip to the shops will all cost less under the Coalition,' Mr Dutton emphasised.

The financial implications of this measure could have an estimated cost of $6 billion.

However, Dutton pledged to introduce the legislation for the excise cut on the first sitting day of the next parliament, ensuring that the benefits would be felt as quickly as possible.


This was not the first time a pre-election fuel excise cut has been on the table.

The Morrison Government offered a similar incentive in 2022.

On the other side of the political divide, Labor has outlined its cost-of-living measures, including an extra tax cut of $5 a week for individuals earning more than $45,000 starting next year.

'I understand there's always an appetite for governments to do more,' Treasurer Jim Chalmers stated.

'We've got budget constraints, but it's not the only thing we are doing in cost of living. It goes hand-in-hand with more bulk billing, cheaper medicines.'

The total value of these changes is estimated at $50 a week for the average worker, factoring in a $150 energy rebate.

While the Liberals' fuel excise cut is a headline-grabbing proposal, the cost of Labor's $5-per-week tax cut—amounting to $17 billion by 2030—highlighted the delicate balance between providing immediate relief and ensuring economic stability.

It's crucial for voters, particularly seniors who may feel the financial strain, to weigh the benefits of both parties' offers.
Key Takeaways

  • Peter Dutton promised to halve the fuel excise for 12 months if elected Prime Minister.
  • The Liberal Party's proposal, intended as their major cost-of-living measure, could see a two-car family save approximately $1500 over the year.
  • The fuel excise cut would reduce rates from 50.8 cents to 25.4 cents per litre and would cost the government about $6 billion.
  • This announcement was seen as a challenge to the Labor Party, with Dutton contrasting the immediacy of the fuel excise cut to Labor's planned tax cuts.
We would love to hear your thoughts on this issue. How do you manage your fuel expenses, and what impact would these proposed changes have on your budget? Share your experiences and opinions in the comments below.
 

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Has anybody ever thought what the purpose for fuel excise is?

It is legislated to be spent on one specific purpose - transport infrastructure in the form of new roadworks and road maintenance. So, the estimated $6 billion shortfall of revenue created by Dutton's excise cut will have to be obtained from other sectors in order to maintain other Federal Government services.

Where will the shortfall be made up from? Cuts to hospitals, education, social services, communications or defence?

You don't pull $6 billion out of your hat, or in Dutton's case, out of his arse!
 
And you have had your head in the sand supporting that traitorous lying mongrel Elbowgreasy who is not interested in the welfare of Australians, only interested in trying to look good in the eyes of the world and lining his own hip pocket, He and his cronies have made Australia the laughing stock of the world.
I think this is good for everyone not just Taxpayers as in the 75c per day tax break in 15months time by Labour .. This is good for us PENSIONERS ??
 
so you are prepared to hand back all of the pay rises and benefits that I have received over the past 3 years because you would rather be scammed by Dutton who is using consolidated revenue to buy your vote-- Dutton will screw you sunshine but don't try to screw me over as well.
OOPS ? Only pay rise I get is indexed ... GO FIGURE ... Worth Sod All .
 
so you are prepared to hand back all of the pay rises and benefits that I have received over the past 3 years because you would rather be scammed by Dutton who is using consolidated revenue to buy your vote-- Dutton will screw you sunshine but don't try to screw me over as well.
He will no doubt do just that.....
 
Does anyone remember when Dutton was the Federal Health and Aged Care Minister under the Abbott government in 2013-14? The clown that cut $50 billion from the funding of Victorian hospitals during his watch while LNP Premier Denis Naphine was at the helm. :ROFLMAO:

How does a disgraced former Queensland copper get such a gig? He should have been jailed instead, for attempting to obtain monies by deception after his dodgy $250000 "lawsuit" after "retiring" in unusual circumstances from the Queensland Police Service in 1999.
 
Dutton will take it from somewhere else. Got a text from LiberalTeam today, with no number, so I couldn't block it. Whose paying for that, Gina "Musk"? You can bet she'll be doing her best to buy this election. It's going so well for the average American, hopefully Australians have their eyes wide open.
 
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Has anybody ever thought what the purpose for fuel excise is?

It is legislated to be spent on one specific purpose - transport infrastructure in the form of new roadworks and road maintenance. So, the estimated $6 billion shortfall of revenue created by Dutton's excise cut will have to be obtained from other sectors in order to maintain other Federal Government services.

Where will the shortfall be made up from? Cuts to hospitals, education, social services, communications or defence?

You don't pull $6 billion out of your hat, or in Dutton's case, out of his arse!
You certainly don't especially when you can get the voters to it for you and then cut their throats but raising taxes and closing down every thing they hate from the ALP-- but the blind voters will happily sell their future and security for a few cents a liter of their fuel costs.
 
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Dutton will take it from somewhere else. Got a text from LiberalTeam today, with no number, so I couldn't block it. Whose paying for that, Gina "Musk"? You can bet she'll be doing her best to buy this election. It's going so well for the average American, hopefully Australians have their eyes wide open.
Now there is another pig swilling in the trough of opulence.
 
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Have you ever heard the salesman pitch when selling a car-- you can have this car when I pay you to buy it from me--NO-- well reverse it and you have the 25 cents a liter smoke and mirrors trick from the salesman
that 25 cents is coming out of consolidate revenue which is money you have already paid when you buy fuel so you are selling your vote for your money from revenue that is used for the benefit of us all--
Now that creates a big hole in the budget so so like the man that digs a hole to get rid of the dirt from the first hole he dug, he is now going to raise the income tax rate on workers, reduce wages , conditions and benefits, close down Medicare and raise the cost on drugs-This is the political scam of an immense degree so immense that all the voters can see is the fuel saving, even though they have EV car or do very little driving
WE are all supposed to believe that reducing the fuel cost ( remember using our money to do so)will bring down the cost of living--TRUST ME IT WON'T, because greedy corporations will see the opportunity if increase profits
DON'T FALL FOR THE DUTTON SCAM AND LYING PROMISES.i
 
Have you ever heard the salesman pitch when selling a car-- you can have this car when I pay you to buy it from me--NO-- well reverse it and you have the 25 cents a liter smoke and mirrors trick from the salesman
that 25 cents is coming out of consolidate revenue which is money you have already paid when you buy fuel so you are selling your vote for your money from revenue that is used for the benefit of us all--
Now that creates a big hole in the budget so so like the man that digs a hole to get rid of the dirt from the first hole he dug, he is now going to raise the income tax rate on workers, reduce wages , conditions and benefits, close down Medicare and raise the cost on drugs-This is the political scam of an immense degree so immense that all the voters can see is the fuel saving, even though they have EV car or do very little driving
WE are all supposed to believe that reducing the fuel cost ( remember using our money to do so)will bring down the cost of living--TRUST ME IT WON'T, because greedy corporations will see the opportunity if increase profits
DON'T FALL FOR THE DUTTON SCAM AND LYING PROMISES.
......... and, of course, the PM's $5 offer is so overwhelming better, not to mention our astronomically growing deficit blowout! It is not better to make a promise for 1 year and so how the economy is going rather than to make false forever promises and spend taxpayers money with total abandon and no accountability? Caution, careful calculations and budgeting is how the economy gets back on its feet so, sorry, cannot understand or agree with your interpretation of this budget point. You are entitled to your opinion as am I......let's see how the election pans out!
 
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Be careful what you wish for. Dutton is one of Morrison‘s henchmen - surely no one would be stupid enough to go back there
So interesting that you believe things have improved under the current PM because all I and so many others have seen is the exact opposite. Perhaps there is another universe you are referring to ......
 
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OOPS ? Only pay rise I get is indexed ... GO FIGURE ... Worth Sod All .

free.lander - Last time I looked it was only public servants who were fed from the PM's pot of gold and his exponential increase in their numbers did not come about because of his benevolence, it was to capture the number of voters he has bought. In view of your comments, I rest my case!
 
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free.lander - Last time I looked it was only public servants who were fed from the PM's pot of gold and his exponential increase in their numbers did not come about because of his benevolence, it was to capture the number of voters he has bought. In view of your comments, I rest my case!
you either didn't look or were blind
You are one of the many who complained about long wait times and long phone calls to get no where ans when the ALP employs more people , you complain about that as well-- Employing people is not vote catching because employed pay taxes and that is good for the economy
But seeing how you have opened your mouth on vote catching, you would be OK for Dutton to open a big block hole in revenue so that he can give to 25 cent a liter to the mugs who thing whoop y do He is a wonderful man so I will vote for him--you are prepared to sell your soul and have him cut every thing he promised not to cut for a promise
I hope that you are one of the 40,000 that get the sack and then have to pay for every doctors visit and have no public hospitals -- not you ,how about no future for your kids and grand kids because he closes TAFE colleges
The choice is your -- forward with ALBO or backwards with the great scammer -- Dutton
 
And you have had your head in the sand supporting that traitorous lying mongrel Elbowgreasy who is not interested in the welfare of Australians, only interested in trying to look good in the eyes of the world and lining his own hip pocket, He and his cronies have made Australia the laughing stock of the world.
What are you on?
 
What has not been mentioned much is that saving on excise will help with alot as the truckies will be saving more than $10 per week and the tradies will be saving alot too so their expenses will drop which will flow onto you more than the $10 per week if you earn over $45000 so some of us who do not earn that much due to retirement will not benefit from it at all. At least with the fuel majority of us will have the benefit of the savings and flow on from the transport industry and tradies so it is a win win I think as it is help us all not just a few
It will be for 12 months then prices will go back up again
 
you either didn't look or were blind
You are one of the many who complained about long wait times and long phone calls to get no where ans when the ALP employs more people , you complain about that as well-- Employing people is not vote catching because employed pay taxes and that is good for the economy
But seeing how you have opened your mouth on vote catching, you would be OK for Dutton to open a big block hole in revenue so that he can give to 25 cent a liter to the mugs who thing whoop y do He is a wonderful man so I will vote for him--you are prepared to sell your soul and have him cut every thing he promised not to cut for a promise
I hope that you are one of the 40,000 that get the sack and then have to pay for every doctors visit and have no public hospitals -- not you ,how about no future for your kids and grand kids because he closes TAFE colleges
The choice is your -- forward with ALBO or backwards with the great scammer -- Dutton
Oh dear, you really are very limited and that is the way the PM likes it. No use arguing with a fool because to do so, you become one so this is when I sign off.
 
Poor bugger give him a chance!!. He can't be any worse than Albo who has made a mess of everything. People living on the streets with no hope of ever getting a house because foreigners are buying several at a time and they are getting into everything and everywhere and most are rude when you take something back.
give him a chance--poor bugger-- where have you been for the last 15 years- I has been in the same lying incompetent, corrupt government all along and has had every chance to assist in the destruction of the country and everything you have received from the ALP, --AND YOU WANT TO GIVE HIM ANOTHER GO to take it all away again
Not only that you want to pay your self to sell your vote to him for a measly 25 cents a liter for just 12 months so that the black hole in revenue will take 6 years to refill before we move forward
He has had his GO and now needs to be GONE
 
Any such measures are meaningless until the government puts a stop to price collusion between the main players in the retail petrol industry. We need true competition between the various players.
 
give him a chance--poor bugger-- where have you been for the last 15 years- I has been in the same lying incompetent, corrupt government all along and has had every chance to assist in the destruction of the country and everything you have received from the ALP, --AND YOU WANT TO GIVE HIM ANOTHER GO to take it all away again
Not only that you want to pay your self to sell your vote to him for a measly 25 cents a liter for just 12 months so that the black hole in revenue will take 6 years to refill before we move forward
He has had his GO and now needs to be GONE
l stand by what l have said. Personally l think they are all as bad as each other but a person should be given a change and you must admit Albo has made a mess of everything
 

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