1¢-a-litre subsidy to keep refineries open and save jobs
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New taxpayer-funded subsidies for Australia s remaining oil refineries will be urgently brought forward to January 1 as international travel bans gut fuel demand and send the domestic industry spiralling towards plant closures and job losses.
The federal government will on Monday announce it will fast-track taxpayer-funded production payments of a minimum one cent for each litre of petrol, diesel, or jet fuel produced by major domestic refineries that are continuing operations in Australia.
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