Australia’s peak motoring body is encouraging voters to review their local MP’s view on road safety and data transparency via the campaign website: datasaveslives.org.au
read moreThe nation’s peak motoring body has backed a call by an all-party Victorian Parliamentary committee for the state to collect and publish more data about the causes of car crashes.
read moreMotorists have been shortchanged by around $3 billion in the past year as the Federal Government fails to deliver its own target for reinvesting fuel excise into land transport infrastructure.
read moreA lack of publicly available information about Australian roads and crashes causes makes it impossible to accurately explain dramatic increases in the road toll or the effectiveness of the measures being funded to prevent them.
read moreThe latest AAA Transport Affordability Index shows that Australia’s transport cost inflation eased in the June quarter, falling below the consumer price index rate.
read moreThe road toll continues to rise and national injuries still cannot be counted or reported, despite years of promises from governments that such progress on data collection is imminent.
read moreAustralia’s new vehicle market is continuing to change as battery electric vehicles and hybrids take market share from internal combustion engine cars. But there are big differences across the country.
read moreThe latest quarterly Benchmarking of the National Road Safety Strategy shows governments remain unable to track most of their agreed targets, and road deaths are now increasing, rather than declining as intended.
read moreNew data shows 1,202 people died on the nation’s roads in the 12 months to 31 May 2023, which is 24 more deaths than in the previous corresponding 12-month period – a 2 per cent increase.
read moreThe latest AAA Transport Affordability Index shows that even as Australia’s overall inflation rate eased slightly in the March quarter, transport cost rises accelerated.
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