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Victoria should end the sale of all new petrol and diesel cars by 2030 and introduce emissions standards to weed out heavily-polluting cars, according to hundreds of people quizzed on how the government could prompt a shift to electric vehicles.
Governments should also change their fleets to electric vehicles and insist new housing developments install electric charging stations, the state’s infrastructure advisory body, Infrastructure Victoria, was told.
Electric vehicles represent only 0.6 per cent of Australian car sales.
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Infrastructure Victoria is currently reviewing the state’s 30-year infrastructure strategy, with the aim of lowering Victoria’s increasing transport emissions.
Victoria needs to go faster than we are on electric vehicles
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Victoria needs to go faster than we are on electric vehicles
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News by Jade Gailberger 4th Apr 2021 1:23 PM Credit card interest rates should be slashed with the cost of borrowing money at record lows, Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas says. Mr Pallas has put the banks on notice in a bid to ease the financial burden on Aussies doing it tough during the pandemic. In a letter to his federal counterpart Josh Frydenberg and banking executives, Mr Pallas is demanding a review of the way credit card borrowing rates are set and regulated. He said interest rates on credits cards had remained around 20 per cent despite the 0.1 per cent cash rate. That is unfair, it is unreasonable, and it s unconscionable and it has to stop, Mr Pallas said.
Victorian Treasurer calls on federal government to slash credit card interest rate limits
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