$100 will barely fill my tank, but I’ll take free money when its on offer

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There’s no such thing as free money, unless you live in Western Australia.

The headline of today’s budget was a novel $100 “fuel support payment” that will only just be enough to fill the tank of my Ford Focus once with maybe enough left over to get a cheese and bacon traveller pie with sauce.

Take that, oil shock.

The whole thing will cost about $210 million (around the same price as the Burswood racetrack and Perth Park) and will be available for WA’s 2.1 million drivers’ licence holders.

Despite assurances of more targeted cost-of-living........

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