Another day, another pamphlet from this government. A government that, during the last election campaign, were saying electric vehicles would end the weekend, a government that had a violent opposition to the use of electric vehicles and now we would have it believe they have converted.
The same government whose fuel security strategy consisted of having fuel storage in the Gulf of Mexico.
The same government that has been in denial and what’s occurred here, just a couple of weeks after they released their climate pamphlet, is they are once again not showing the leadership that’s required.
Scott Morrison is following. The truth is that all of the auto manufacturers are phasing out internal combustion engines. There is a shift around the world to electric vehicles.
Australia’s uptake last year was under 2%. In Norway it was 70%. In the UK it was 15% and rising. We are falling behind and this is once again a government that was in denial about change, rather than shaping change in the interests of people.