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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A simple change to the registration fee that scales it up proportionate to Vehicle weight would be a perfect fix for this. They could even scale it down for ebikes / motorcycles and create a much simpler system for evaluating how rego is charged?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

NSW already does this and it doesn't seem to have reduced the rise of larger vehicles, though admittedly the price difference isn't massive for most cars (e.g. a Camry would fall into the $330 category while a Hilux would be $505).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It would need to scale pretty high. Wealth inequality is the root cause of this problem.