Quick, look over your shoulder.
That flicker of movement on the Australian horizon is the electric vehicle revolution poking its head up with the dawning sun.
The latest electric car charging centre at Gympie which opened this week.
Credit:Energy Queensland.
In Australia, electric vehicle sales quietly tripled in 2019 â although the numbers are still small, according to the Electric Vehicle Council.
That year, sales tripled from 2216 to 6718 and a further 3226 electric cars were sold in the first six months of 2020, despite new car sales slumping 20 per cent because of COVID-19.
In Queensland, 450 full electric vehicles were sold in 2019 and about 180 in the first few months of 2020 before COVID-19.
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Labor s radical IR restructure will come as a massive $20b tax on business11/02/2021|13min
Attorney-General Christian Porter says Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese’s eight-point plan to reform Australian Industrial Relations will result in a “radical restructure” of the workplace which will come at a “massive cost” to business.
Outlining his IR reforms on Wednesday, Mr Albanese expressed concern about the three and a half million casual workers, including delivery drivers and their work conditions, claiming the “largely unregulated” industry puts “unacceptable pressure” on gig workers.
Mr Porter accused Mr Albanese of only “pretending to be on the side of the workers” but failing to count the cost of his IR reforms.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has dismissed as “nonsense” Attorney-General Christian Porter’s comments labelling Labor’s new IR reform plan as “unqualified and outlandish”.
On Wednesday, Mr Porter described the IR reform plan as "one of the most unlimited, unqualified, quite outlandish promises that has ever been made in the history of industrial relations”.
“It doesn’t take much more than common sense to know that would be an extinction level event for tens of thousands of Australian businesses,” he said.
Mr Albanese accused the Morrison government of “making up figures as if they get them out of a cereal box in the morning”.
“They can't be taken seriously”.
“What should be taken seriously is the fact that workers are doing it tough, that casualisation in the workforce is an issue, that job security is an issue, that income security is an issue.”
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has reminisced on his experience working at McDonalds, describing a casual job as a “good thing” for young people who are still at school.
“I used to work at Maccas, I used to and I know what it's like to have a bit of food or drink during your break, you need to do it," he said.
“I used to work out the back.
“It was hot, hard work.”
The Opposition leader criticised the government for taking into account in the better off overall test whether McDonald’s employees receive food during their lunch break.
“The idea that you take into account whether someone's better off overall if they had the luxury of actually getting a bit of food and a soft drink during their drinks break is just quite absurd.”