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Michael Pascoe

If Labor is serious about electric vehicles, fixing the fringe-benefits tax is the next step

EVs offer a green and practical way to slash emissions, but that depends on policies promoting their wider adoption. Photo: Getty

Energy Minister Chris Bowen on Friday nudged a little closer to making Australia take electric vehicles seriously, but Labor is not there yet.

If it were serious, it would drop the government’s annual billion-dollar subsidy for fossil-fuel cars through the novated lease rort.
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