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Policy & Regulation

Tobacco Enforcement Now Runs on State Lines, and Insurers Are Pricing It

Coalition Ties a Fuel Excise Cut to the Oil Price, Paid for by Tobacco

$92 Million Seized as Tobacco Enforcement Moves Offshore

One Nation Moves to Cut Tobacco Excise by 75 Percent

One Servo, One ACCC Review: The New Merger Rules Reach the Forecourt

Full Excise Returns With the ACCC Watching

Record $1.1m Fine Caps a Week of Tobacco Enforcement

Excise Relief Ends as Oil Tops $100

Tobacco Enforcement Escalates Nationally as Landlord Penalties Take Effect

Fuel Excise Relief Extended Into July, at Half the Saving

One Nation Pushes to Halve Tobacco Excise

Illicit Tobacco Crackdown Moves from Fines to Closures

Five Weeks to Decide: The Fuel Excise Cut and What Happens on 1 July

NSW Tobacco Crackdown Now Reaches the Landlord

What the 2026 federal budget means for service station operators

FuelCheck penalties just tripled. Here’s what NSW operators need to do this week.

Big Business Gets Heard. Independents Don’t.

Week Five: Big Moves from Canberra. Will They Reach Your Forecourt?

RBA Bans Card Surcharging: What It Means for Your Servo

Government Halves Fuel Excise for Three Months

British American Tobacco Threatens to Quit Australia

Government Moves on Fuel Crisis: What It Means for Independents

ACCC Puts Fuel Retailers on Notice: What Independent Operators Need to Know

Victoria Introduces Daily Fuel Price Caps and Stricter Reporting for Service Stations

Decisions made in Canberra and the state capitals land directly on the forecourt. This section covers government policy and legislation affecting service stations, ACCC fuel price monitoring and competition decisions, fuel excise and other taxes and levies, tobacco licensing and vape laws, and price transparency schemes like FuelWatch and FuelCheck.
For independent operators, keeping up with regulation is time-consuming but unavoidable: a change to tobacco licensing, card surcharging or price reporting can affect how you run your site within weeks. Use the sub-topics to go straight to government and legislation, tax, excise and levies, tobacco and vape laws, or ACCC and competition.
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