The Sharp Rise of Homeschooling & Is The Fuel Tax Discount Extending?
6/21/202611 min
🗞️ HEADLINES 🗞️
- Fuel excise reduction to be halved, but extended through July
- Liberals vie to keep members from jumping ship to One Nation
- Inflation figures expected to be handed down on Wednesday
- Parts of France on high alert as heatwave unfurls across Europe
- Pre-fabricated housing could be key to helping with housing demand
- King Charles III to release his tax bill to the public
- Mike Myers confirms Austin Powers 4 on the way
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First 90 secondsTaylor Strano· Host0:00
You're listening to a Mamamia podcast. [intro music] Good morning, I'm Taylor Strano with the latest from the Quickie newsroom. For a record number of Aussie families, bullying at schools has reached a breaking point. We're unpacking the sharp rise in homeschooling, hearing from parents who say traditional schools have failed their children. Before we get there, here's your news headlines for Monday, June 22. Motorists will benefit as a cut to fuel taxes is extended for another month, although at half the previous discount. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a scaled-back extension of the fuel excise reduction, meaning petrol and diesel will be 16 cents per liter cheaper in July than they would've been without the discount. The current saving at the bowser is 32 cents per liter, brought into effect three months earlier in response to the conflict in the Middle East, which sent global oil prices surging due to the de facto closure of key shipping channel, the Strait of Hormuz. The full discount will end after June 30, having cost the federal budget an estimated $2.9 billion in lost revenue. Australia currently has 44 days' worth of petrol in reserve, or about eight days more than when the US first bombed Iran in late February. Diesel stocks are running at 39 days and jet fuel at 32. Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has