The federal government is looking at new ways of charging motorists to use roads as states and territories move to user-based models
Less than one-fifth of Australians believe the fuel excise should remain under an overhaul to road charges, and almost half want it replaced with new distance-based charges that include electric vehicles.
States and territories have already begun moving to road-user charging for electric cars, but there is no nationally consistent model. A further 18 per cent wanted fuel excise to stay only for motorists using petrol cars, while 34 per cent were undecided. Michael Bradley, managing director of the Australian Automobile Association, said the federal government’s desire to accelerate the increased supply of electric cars into Australia was welcome, but it came with a responsibility to develop a new way to charge motorists.
Former Productivity Commission boss Peter Harris has said the inability of governments to embrace road pricing was the “greatest failure of my time in infrastructure” and would spark a “revenue crisis” in the years to come.
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