Josh Frydenberg’s 2022 Budget has been swallowed and digested faster than any Budget in living memory, with election speculation and ugly politics overtaking the traditional period of selling the benefits.
A $250 cash handout to pensioners and welfare recipients; a one-off $420 cost-of-living tax offset for low-income earners, and a six-month respite for motorists struggling with $2-a-litre fuel prices were the headline acts in the Budget, but all were immediately and unequivocally accepted…
