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Budget won’t extend fuel excise cut beyond Jone, treasurer says

Jim Chalmers says next Tuesday’s budget will not extend the 26 cent fuel tax cut beyond June.

The budget will be calibrated for the conditions, but it will also still be consistent with our ambitions.

The election began a year of delivery, and the budget will begin a year of more ambitious reform, reform which is made more not less, urgent by global inflation and global economic uncertainty.

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Publish date : 2026-05-03 23:33:00

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