Fuel assistance package is largest item in Papua New Guinea’s 2026 supplementary budget
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- Papua New Guinea’s fuel assistance package accounts for the largest expenditure item in the 2026 supplementary budget.
- Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey said the package has held fuel prices at March levels.
- He contrasted the policy with dramatic fuel-cost increases in countries around Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea’s fuel assistance package is the largest expenditure item in the government’s 2026 supplementary budget.
Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey announced the figure while presenting the supplementary budget in Parliament. He said the package had kept fuel prices frozen at March levels.
Ling-Stuckey said fuel costs had risen dramatically in countries around Papua New Guinea, highlighting the government’s price-support measure as a central part of the budget.
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