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NewsMail Afternoon Edition Tue 10 Mar, 2015 Top Stories More Top Stories » Only $100m of $900m budget backdown to flow to car industry By political editor Chris Uhlmann and political correspondent Emma Griffiths No more than $100 million of a $900 million budget backdown in car industry support will actually flow through to the sector - and the Government is aware of the discrepancy. 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