
Petrol to rise back to $1.90 as food costs, interest rates feel the pressure
Consumers face a wall of new costs with the reprieve in petrol coming to an end, interest rates expected to rise and home building costs now up 8 per cent in a year.
Consumers face a wall of new costs with the reprieve in petrol coming to an end, interest rates expected to rise and home building costs now up 8 per cent in a year.
Motorists shouldn’t expect relief at the petrol bowser any time soon, even though global crude oil prices dropped further to below $US100 a barrel on hopes of progress in Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
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The woman killed in a suspicious fire south of Brisbane allegedly entered the property and “threw petrol around” before the home was engulfed in flames, police say.
A year ago, 500 jobs were on the line at Ampol’s Lytton refinery in Brisbane. Today, as fuel prices cut deep, the refinery has reported a remarkable turnaround.
Queensland’s fledgling hydrogen sector has earned a new entrant after Japan’s largest oil company, ENEOS, committed to a detailed study on a commercial scale, hydrogen supply chain between Japan and Queensland.
A man who allegedly doused the family dog, his house and himself in petrol and threatened to set his family alight is the latest potentially horrific domestic violence incident on the Gold Coast, with police describing it as a “miracle” that no-one was killed.