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Trailing Labor by a massive 10 points in the polls, Scott Morrison is splashing taxpayer cash in a desperate bid to buy votes less than two months before polling day in May.
With inflation tipped to climb above four per cent for the first time in 14 years economist Chris Richardson said Budget handouts would make an interest rate rise more likely in 2022.