Coalition to abolish fuel efficiency penalties, dubbing them ‘unfair tax’
A scheme to cut the emissions of cars and encourage electric vehicle uptake will be substantially wound back under a Coalition government, with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton dubbing it an unfair car tax.
The New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) will take force in July after being legislated at the request of several automotive companies in 2024.
It sets an emissions ceiling on the total car sales of each automaker, with heavy penalties for those who exceed it.
The Coalition will dump those penalties — keeping the framework of the efficiency standards, but not penalising breaches.
It argues car manufacturers will continue to offer cleaner cars in the Australian market, but costs will not increase for consumers.
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Peter Dutton heads west again
West Australia helped deliver Anthony Albanese to the Lodge at the 2022 election, and so the Liberals are hoping a strong showing out west could help unseat him.
The opposition leader has made it back to Perth for a second time, with an eye on at least three seats the party considers itself a chance at claiming, including independent Kate Chaney’s inner Perth seat of Curtin.
But there are seats it is also worried about holding onto, including Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie’s seat of Canning.
The most marginal seat in the state Tangney is held by Labor’s Sam Lim. But party insiders say he has proven a relentless door knocker and his community outreach could see him hold on.
While in town, Dutton will use the opportunity to pledge to abolish a key climate measure he says will push up car prices.
Fuel efficiency laws passed by the government last year are due to become enforceable within months — designed to encourage more electric vehicles onto the road by disincentivising carmakers from selling heavy polluting vehicles through a penalty scheme.
Those penalties would push up car prices, Dutton says, vowing if elected his government would effectively remove them.
👋 Good morning
Congratulations on making it to the end of the second week of the federal election campaign.
This week has, so far, largely been overshadowed by what’s going on over in the United States.
So what can we expect today? Potentially more of the same. Anthony Albanese has made his way to Darwin, while Peter Dutton has jetted to WA. More on that shortly from our friends on the road, Stephanie Dalzell and Jake Evans.
The sun is up, and allegedly so am I, so let’s get blogging.
