FuelCrisis.com.au is an independent Australian fuel-security tracker. We publish retail fuel prices, national supply measures and market benchmarks from named government and market sources, and we label every figure with where it came from. This page has what you need to check us, quote us and republish our charts, without sending an email first.
Cadence varies by feed, and we say so on every figure rather than implying everything is live.
| Series | Cadence | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Retail petrol and diesel prices, by state and territory | Refreshed up to twice daily; cadence varies by feed | /fuel-prices |
| National fuel supply, stock cover and pipeline status | Daily, with weekly official inputs | /fuel-supply |
| Brent crude, refined benchmarks and AUD/USD | Daily; Brent is an EIA daily series published weekly | /oil-prices |
| Fuel excise rates and their history | On change; the rate is indexed each February and August | /fuel-excise |
Our methodology names every source, its licence where the publisher states one, and how each derived figure is calculated. Where a number is an estimate rather than a reading, it is labelled as one on the page it appears.
Change in daily median retail petrol and diesel prices in each Australian state and territory around the 3 August 2026 fuel excise step. The method was published on 7 August 2026, before the measurement was taken.
Publishing 06:00 AEST, 17 August 2026.
The URLs below are live now and will not change. Until the release, they return the licence and attribution block with no data in it, so nothing here can be quoted early by accident. The method note is published and final.
| File | Newest release | This release, permanently |
|---|---|---|
| Table, CSV | /data/excise-pass-through/latest.csv | /data/excise-pass-through/2026-08-17.csv |
| Chart, SVG | /data/excise-pass-through/latest.svg | /data/excise-pass-through/2026-08-17.svg |
Cite the dated URL, not the latest one. The latest URL is convenient and will keep working, but its contents change when we publish again, so an article citing it slowly starts referring to different numbers. The dated URL never changes. Both carry the attribution and licence in the file itself, and the chart has its source line drawn into the image.
The published table gives, for each state and territory and for both unleaded and diesel: the baseline median price and its minimum, maximum and standard deviation; the post-step median; the measured change; that change as a share of the 18.81 c/L pump-side excise step; and the overnight step-eve to step-day movement. The measured change and the share of the step are presented separately, and the second is an estimate that does not control for crude oil, the exchange rate or retail discounting cycles.
Attribution line, citation format and republication permission, so none of the three costs you an email.
Source: FuelCrisis.com.au, from state government retail fuel price feeds
FuelCrisis.com.au (2026), "Excise pass-through, August 2026", https://www.fuelcrisis.com.au/data/excise-pass-through/2026-08-17.csv
You may republish the pass-through table and its charts, in print, online or on air, with the attribution line above. You do not need to ask. You may crop a chart or redraw it from the CSV, provided the figures are not altered and the attribution travels with it. This permission is a specific exception to the general restriction in our terms of use, which continues to apply to everything else on the site.
The published pass-through table, its CSV and its charts are released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). This licence covers the published pass-through table, its CSV and its charts. It is not a licence over the site's underlying price database or any other data on this site.
Share-alike rather than a plainer licence for a specific reason, stated here rather than glossed: New South Wales FuelCheck publishes under CC BY-SA, and FuelCheck also serves the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania, so three of the eight jurisdictions in this dataset derive from a share-alike source. Whether share-alike reaches a derived statistic such as a daily median is an unsettled question. Releasing this dataset on the same terms makes the question moot for this dataset, without making any claim either way about the site's underlying database. Each state feed keeps its own licence, named on our methodology page.
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info@fuelcrisis.com.au is the address for verification questions, corrections and data requests. If you are on deadline, say so in the subject line. Our contact page has the rest, and our corrections page records every correction we have published, which is the fastest way to judge how we handle being wrong.
We are a small independent publisher, not a wire service. We do not embargo by default, we do not send unsolicited attachments, and if a figure of ours turns out to be wrong we will tell you before you find out from someone else.
Source: FuelCrisis.com.auUpdated 7 August 2026Editorial standardsHow we measure this
