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Australia’s highest court will decide whether states have the right to tax citizens for the type of cars they drive and how far they drive them.
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle drivers are charged 2.1 cents per kilometre in recognition they also pay the national fuel excise on petrol purchases. The reason I’m driving an electric vehicle is to try to reduce fossil fuel use. To make me feel like I’m a criminal for trying to do the right thing is wrong.
On the suggestion that Australia is entering a “wage-price spiral” , Chalmers rubbishes the idea immediately, pointing to the global factors as the driving factor. . That’s very clear. I think it’s very, very important that we get wages growing strongly and sustainably in our economy. I’m really pleased that we’ve seen the beginnings of that already. That is not the reason why we have this inflation challenge.
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