{"id":404725,"date":"2026-04-13T16:11:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=404725"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:11:38","slug":"rex-patrick-reveals-via-foi-that-accc-had-no-fuel-price-gouging-policing-plan-despite-labor-government-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=404725","title":{"rendered":"Rex Patrick Reveals via FOI That ACCC Had No Fuel Price Gouging Policing Plan Despite Labor Government Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=rex-patrick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Rex Patrick\">Rex Patrick<\/a> obtained Freedom of Information documents showing the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) had no specific plan to police fuel price gouging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This contradicts statements by Labor ministers including Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=anthony-albanese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Anthony Albanese\">Albanese<\/a>. The revelations occurred amid rising fuel prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This contradicts statements by Labor ministers including Prime Minister Albanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":269649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35],"tags":[19610,9031,19846,13893],"class_list":["post-404725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-accc","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-fuel-pricing","tag-rex-patrick"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404728,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404725\/revisions\/404728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}