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Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Dan Tehan says fuel excise cut when oil price high a ‘sensible’ plan Dan Tehan , the shadow minister for energy, said Gallagher’s criticism of the Coalition’s fuel plan wasn’t fair.

[What] I would say to Anthony Albanese and the Labor party is get out amongst the people and see what’s happening in your electorates because people are hurting because of cost of living … We have the discipline to be able to do the policy work to make sure we can offset policies like this so it won’t be inflationary and it will provide much needed relief to people, and they need it now. Obviously we’ve helped when the war started with some changes to the fuel excise but we’ve shifted, and [are] including in the budget, to providing more permanent cost of living arrangements, including through the tax system, to…