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FuelWatch: evidence-based-policy or policy-based-evidence?(Report)
1 Introduction
Stilgoe, Irwin and Jones (2006) provide a detailed discussion of evidence based policy in the United Kingdom and the United States that sets the context for this paper. They document cases where expert evidence was often reshaped and repackaged by governments so that it supported existing policy rather than informing policy decisions.
The decision to introduce a national FuelWatch scheme raises a number of issues about the interplay between evidence and policy in Australia; see Harding (2008a, 2008b, 2008c).
In this paper I focus on just two questions. First, was the policy shaped by the econometric evidence or was the Government's presentation of the evidence shaped by the pre-determined policy? Second, is the econometric evidence sufficiently robust as to support the FuelWatch policy?
2 Background to FuelWatch and the 2007 ACCC Report on Petrol Pricing
The national FuelWatch scheme which was announced on 15 April and is to start on 15 December 2008 is based on the Western Australian Government's scheme of the same name that was introduced on 2 January 2001.
2.1 The 2007 ACCC Report on Petrol Pricing
- Petrol pricing.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire January 24, 2007 700+ words
M2 PRESSWIRE-24 January 2007-ACCC: Petrol pricing(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:23012007 Prices for petrol in Australia have moved back more in line with the Singapore...
- Fed: Govt asks ACCC to investigate petrol pricing
- Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia) December 3, 2009 700+ words
AAP General News (Australia) 12-03-2009 Fed: Govt asks ACCC to investigate petrol pricing The federal government's asked the consumer watchdog to investigate possible petrol price fixing. Competition Policy Minister...
- Postmodern museum or refluent critic? A response to Rod Moran.(Western...
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Morgan, Gary April 1, 2002 700+ words
...Australia, but in this case, the Western Australian Museum in Perth. While Windschuttle...attending to just one gallery of the Western Australian Museum, its Aboriginal gallery...not arrive at a conclusion that the Western Australian Museum is (as Windschuttle says...
- Constructing a Feminist Morality in the Western Australian Abortion Debate,...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies Brankovich, Jasmina March 1, 2001 700+ words
...subject'.(1) When read from the Western Australian viewpoint, the pronouncements of...Shanahan's comments resonate in the Western Australian feminist and pro-choice discourse...and Harry Phillips have classed the Western Australian two-month parliamentary abortion...
- Handbook of Western Australian Birds, Volume II: Passerines (Blue-Winged Pitta...
- Magazine article from: Wilson Bulletin Davis, William E., Jr. December 1, 2005 700+ words
HANDBOOK OF WESTERN AUSTRALIAN BIRDS, VOLUME II: PASSERINES...Johnstone and G. M. Storr. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 2004: 529...and a general discussion of Western Australian avifauna are not included in...
- WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER TO STRENGTHEN SISTER-CITY TIES IN E JAVA.
- News wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia) December 7, 2007 700+ words
...Jakarta, Dec 7 (ANTARA): Western Australian Premier Alan Carpenter made...cattle to Indonesia. The Western Australian Government has been working...in East Java to work for Western Australian companies that are suffering...
- China's NDRC signs steel infrastructure study deal with Western Australian...
- Newspaper article from: China Business News April 27, 2004 700+ words
...steel infrastructure study deal with Western Australian government SHANGHAI. April 26...Memorandum of Intent (MOI) with the Western Australian government to study the most efficient...NDRC signed the agreement with the Western Australian Department of Industry & Resources...
- Ocean Power Technologies and Griffin Energy Sign Joint Development Agreement...
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 19, 2008 700+ words
...Australia. Griffin Energy, a leading Western Australian diversified energy supplier, is...proven track record in delivering Western Australian power projects, we have a significant...supply to Western Australia. "The Western Australian Government has already announced...
Source: HighBeam Research, FuelWatch: evidence-based-policy or policy-based-evidence?(Report)