Albo gives EV drivers a free ride

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EVs relaxing at Chernobyl

It is no secret that federal fuel excise revenues have been in decline for years, and something needs to be done about it. In fact, along with prominent transport industry experts, we wrote a book about it some five years ago. But the High Court, in a 4/3 split decision, has landed the problem in the Albanese government’s lap. What they do about it will impact us for decades to come.

Here is my latest article in The Spectator Australia's Flat White, Albo gives EV drivers a free ride.

Old-fashioned light rail costs more to go slowly to fewer places

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Dr Michael de Percy at the Canberra Metro light rail terminus

Burley Griffin’s 1911 award-winning design for Canberra envisaged mass transit in the form of electric trams. At the time, the major capital cities in Australia had electric trams to bring workers into the CBD from the suburbs. But in 1926, as the national capital prepared to host Parliament, the first public bus services began operating in Canberra. Buses provided cheap, reliable, flexible, and fast public transport that didn’t require the expensive and inflexible infrastructure needed to operate trams. The bus was a modern technological innovation that soon made the tram obsolete in most of the other capital cities.

The people have spoken, but elite activists aren't listening

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Prime Minister Albanese [Photo: US Secretary of Defense - CC BY 2.0]

Not only was it an expensive exercise at the height of a cost of living crisis, the Prime Minister oversaw a campaign that tore Australia apart along the lines of race like never before in this nation's history

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