Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Wong, the minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. Overnight, the Biden administration in the US has significantly watered down their fuel efficiency standards and backed away from aggressive EV targets. Instead of requiring two-thirds of car sales to be electric by 2030, the new rules reportedly set the target as low as 35 per cent EV sales by 2032. Labor's proposed family car tax has set a much more aggressive rate of emissions reduction than the American scheme. Will the government admit it has got its proposal wrong and commit to changes that will not increase the cost of buying cars for Australians?