CANBERRA, ACT, June 21 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:
KIERAN GILBERT: Prime Minister, thanks for your time. So, why have you made this call to continue the fuel excise relief?
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: We know that families are still under pressure, and we also know that the impact of this conflict on the other side of the world will have a long economic tail to it, so there's still some uncertainty that oil prices come down this week. We want to see that flow through, but it will take some time. So, what we're determined to do is to step down the relief on excise from 32 cents, it will step down by half to 16 cents for the month of July up until 2 August, and will also consequentially dec...