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Melissa Meehan

Motoring body drives push for road safety ratings

Road funding should be based on a risk assessment for the highway, a peak automobile body says. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

A globally recognised risk rating system should determine how the Australian government funds major roads, a peak motoring body says. 

Federal road funding would be better based on a risk assessment for the road, including information about how the proposed work will lift the road's safety rating, the Australian Automobile Association says. 

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