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Does the National Electric Vehicle Strategy go the distance?

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Australia's Strategy for Imports

Australia is one of the very few developed countries that don't have an emission ceiling for cars. It would at the moment we've got quite restrictive rules about importing cars, which I believe were designed to protect the car manufacturing industry back when we had one. Both new and secondhand vehicles are difficult to import to this country and largely to the U.S. And it's the near term where we've got demand that's outstripping supply, but also just this idea of triggering a more lively secondhand market.

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