Funding in Budget 2026 keeps existing initiatives going and will be used for new help if the fuel crisis worsens.

Coalition ministers have talked up the frightful fiscal forecasts facing the nation, but there is still some money left in the Budget.

Finance Minister Nicola Willis is describing the sum as an “emergency savings account”.

Funding in Budget 2026 keeps existing initiatives going and will be used for new help if the fuel crisis worsens.