UWA Research

UWA Adjunct Professor Ray Wills and Professor Peter Newman, Curtin highlight how Australia has subsidised diesel use for 44 years, shaping key industries and slowing the shift to cleaner transport.

With major mining investments still tied to diesel, the research questions whether policy settings are holding back electrification and climate progress.

via The Conversation Australia + NZ

For 44 years, Australia has subsidised diesel use. Is it time to stop? Mining giant BHP under fire for spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new diesel trucks in the Pilbara, despite promising a transition to electric trucks