Vic: Bracks to seek talks with Beattie over petrol price plan

AAP General News (Australia)
02-20-2001
Vic: Bracks to seek talks with Beattie over petrol price plan

Victorian Premier STEVE BRACKS will seek talks with his Queensland counterpart PETER
BEATTIE about his plan to compel petrol stations to fix prices for 24 hours in a bid to
encourage fairer competition.

Under the plan, petrol stations will be required to report their retail prices to the
Office of Fair Trading each day and these prices will be locked …