{"id":2246,"date":"2019-04-12T09:17:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T09:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2019-04-12T09:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T09:17:12","slug":"plibersek-calls-australia-the-junkyard-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/04\/12\/plibersek-calls-australia-the-junkyard-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Plibersek calls Australia 'the junkyard of the world'"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Melbourne radio this morning, Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek heaped scorn on the most popular vehicles Australians love to drive, calling Australia \u201cthe junkyard of the world\u201d as she continued to push Labor\u2019s electric vehicle (EV) policy.
\nMs Plibersek went on to bell the cat on Labor\u2019s policy, saying:
\n\u201cWe are the junkyard of the world….If you want to buy an electric vehicle in Australia you\u2019re looking at least $60,000 bucks in most cases, many of the cars that are on sale here, well put it this way, very few of them cost less than $60,000. I think there\u2019s four models that cost less than $60,000.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>ABC Radio Melbourne, 12 April 2019<\/strong>
\nMs Plibersek has confirmed Labor wants to force Australians out of the cars we love, and into vehicles that cost over $60,000.
\nOur favourite vehicles are on Bill\u2019s hit list. 17 of the top 20 most popular models in Australia don\u2019t meet Labor\u2019s 105gCO2<\/sub>\/km vehicle emissions standard.
\nThe average price of Australia\u2019s 20 most popular vehicles is less than $35,000. Labor\u2019s 105gCO2<\/sub>\/km limit will increase the cost of a new car by more than $4,800. This is a tax on all vehicles over 105g\/km, so the Labor party can force Australians to help them meet their costly EV target.
\nThe Liberal National Government supports a natural transition to EVs for Australians who want to drive them.
\nWe will achieve that through investments in congestion-busting infrastructure, continuing our support for Australian companies that are benefiting from opportunities in global manufacturing supply chains, and coordinating initiatives across all levels of government \u2013 so that Australian car owners can make their own decisions.
\nOnly the Morrison Government has a strong, costed and planned strategy for emissions reduction. The Labor Party has set \u201ceconomy wrecking\u201d targets without a plan to get us there. Nowhere is this more obvious than in their hopeless and damaging EV policy.
\nIf Bill Shorten can\u2019t tell you what his policy will do to the price of cars and fuel. Don\u2019t vote for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Melbourne radio this morning, Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek heaped scorn on the most popular vehicles Australians love to drive, calling Australia \u201cthe junkyard of the world\u201d as she continued to push Labor\u2019s electric vehicle (EV) policy. Ms Plibersek went on to bell the cat on Labor\u2019s policy, saying: \u201cWe are the junkyard of … Continue reading “Plibersek calls Australia 'the junkyard of the world'”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}