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.
The week's figures as the site holds them today, each with the dates it spans, where it comes from and when it was read. Observed readings and derived arithmetic are labelled. Nothing here is a forecast.
Petrol 238.9 c/L, down 0.5 c/L on the week; wholesale petrol steady, +0.5 per cent week on week; 34 days of fuel cover, supply strained.
| Measure | Value | Window | Source | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National petrol medianderived | 238.9 c/L (-0.5 on the week) | 1 Sept to 1 Oct 2026 | State government fuel price feeds, population-weighted national median | 1 October 2026 |
| Wholesale directionderived | holding steady (+0.5%) | 18 Sept to 1 Oct 2026 | AIP terminal gate prices, population-weighted national figure (FuelCrisis-derived) | 1 October 2026 |
| Days of fuel coverobserved | 34 days (petrol 42, diesel 32, jet 29) | 15 Sept to 22 Sept 2026 | DCCEEW Minimum Stockholding Obligation weekly statistics | 22 September 2026 |
| National diesel medianderived | 285.2 c/L (-3.4 on the week) | 1 Sept to 1 Oct 2026 | State government fuel price feeds, population-weighted national median | 1 October 2026 |
| Widest weekly move by jurisdictionobserved | TAS +2.0 c/L | 23 Sept to 1 Oct 2026 | State government fuel price feeds, per-jurisdiction medians | 1 October 2026 |
| Brent crudeobserved | US$113.96 (-0.8% on the week) | 28 Aug to 29 Sept 2026 | EIA Europe Brent spot, daily series released weekly | 29 September 2026 |
| Terminal gate petrol by capitalobserved | Melbourne +0.7 c/L to 231.5 | 24 Sept to 1 Oct 2026 | AIP terminal gate prices | 1 October 2026 |
| Widest capital-to-regional gapobserved | SA +8.1 c/L | 30 Sept to 1 Oct 2026 | State government fuel price feeds, Greater Capital City against rest of state | 1 October 2026 |
Observed is a published reading, such as a terminal gate price or a DCCEEW stock figure. Derived is our arithmetic over readings, such as a population-weighted median or a week-on-week move, and is labelled that way wherever it appears. A comparison that reaches back across a change in our own method is omitted rather than approximated, and a comparison to the pre-crisis baseline says in its own sentence that the two figures are measured differently. The sentence each figure supports is in the file.
| File | Current week | This week, dated |
|---|---|---|
| Table, CSV | /data/weekly/latest.csv | /data/weekly/2026-10-01.csv |
| Facts with detail, JSON | /data/weekly/latest.json | /data/weekly/2026-10-01.json |
The dated file carries the date of its newest reading. The current-week URL always serves this week. Each day's file is archived as published, so the dated URL keeps serving the figures it carried on that date after the week moves on; every archived date is listed at /data/weekly/index.json. The header block in each file repeats the attribution, the licence and the citation, so a table pasted into a CMS keeps its provenance.
Source: FuelCrisis.com.au, from state government retail fuel price feeds, AIP terminal gate prices, DCCEEW stockholding statistics, EIA and ECB market data
FuelCrisis.com.au (2026), "This week's fuel numbers, 2026-10-01", https://www.fuelcrisis.com.au/data/weekly/2026-10-01.csv
This table and its files are released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0), the same terms as the pass-through release in section 03 and for the same reason: three of the eight jurisdictions in these figures come through NSW FuelCheck, a share-alike source, and releasing on the same terms settles the question for this table without any claim about the site's underlying database. The full reasoning is in section 04. The licence covers this table and its files, not the database they are read from.
Source: FuelCrisis.com.au, from state government retail fuel price feeds, AIP terminal gate prices, DCCEEW stockholding statistics, EIA and ECB market dataUpdated 1 October 2026The same sentence on the homepageHow we measure this
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.
No table has been published.
The measurement was run on 16 August 2026 and again on 24 August 2026, on the dates the method note committed to. Both runs met the no-publish condition in section 05 of that note: retail prices in every state were already climbing steeply before the excise changed, so a before-and-after comparison could not separate the tax from the trend. We said in advance that we would publish nothing in that case, and we have published nothing.
The URLs below stay reserved and will not change. Until a result exists they return the licence and attribution block with no data in it, so nothing here can be quoted by accident. The method note sets out the condition and the 16 August outcome.
| 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, the weekly numbers table and their 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, the weekly numbers table, their files and the pass-through charts are released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). This licence covers the published pass-through table, the weekly numbers table, their CSV and JSON files and the pass-through 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 these datasets derive from a share-alike source. Whether share-alike reaches a derived statistic such as a daily median is an unsettled question. Releasing these datasets on the same terms makes the question moot for them, without making any claim either way about the site's underlying database. Each state feed keeps its own licence, named on our methodology page.
One address, read by a person. Deadline enquiries about a published figure are answered first.
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 15 September 2026Editorial standardsHow we measure this
