**In short: **

The government has halved the fuel excise, reducing the cost of petrol and diesel by 26.3 cents a litre for three months.

The heavy road user charge will also be reduced to zero for the same period, taking pressure off truck drivers and transport costs.

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    9 days ago

    Yeah, thanks for replying to this. Reducing panic buying is probably something I wasn’t thinking of a lot and you can see it in my other comments. I’d put a lot of the downvotes down to an emotional situation but this is an important oversight