Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for her question and her interest in the National Electric Vehicle Strategy released by the minister for transport and me in recent weeks. And the honourable member is right: the National Electric Vehicle Strategy commits the government to introducing a fuel efficiency standard, and we're very proud of that.

This should have happened years ago. It was always contemplated by some opposite—the former member for Kooyong said he was committed to it—but they just never got around to doing it because they don't actually believe in making manufacturers send fuel-efficient vehicles, electric vehicles and other vehicles, to Australia. We have committed to doing that because Australia and Russia are the only two developed countries without fuel efficiency standards, and that means Australians are missing out on real choice. This is a complicated—

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