Rex Patrick (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, Senator Seselja. The federal government promised to release the electric vehicle strategy in 2019. It didn't come. Neither did it come in 2020. We now find ourselves in 2021, still waiting. The vacuum in federal leadership on electric vehicles is now being filled by state and territory and even local governments going ahead with their own disjointed plans. This is somewhat reminiscent of Australia's rail track fiasco, which resulted in the country having a mismatch of narrow-, standard- and broad-gauged rail scattered across the nation. Just how long will it take for the Morrison government to come up with a national strategy for electric vehicles? What is the delay to this important strategy?