Friday, 11 April 2025 The Coalition’s plan to wind back pollution standards is a step backwards This move reduces choice for farmers and increases vehicle pollution Strong, enforceable standards would give Australian farmers more choice: access to cleaner, more efficient vehicles already available overseas. Farmers for Climate Action (FCA), which represents more than 8400 farmers

Ms Collard said. “The Coalition has done such great work on calling out the failures of voluntary codes in the big supermarket space, so we’re confused as to why they’re effectively offering a voluntary code to the big car makers on pollution.

Good point for them to make about the Coalitions double standards here.

“Now, vehicles like the Ford F150 Lightning, the Tesla Cybertruck, and the Rivian R1T — all powerful, clean options suitable for farm work — could finally become accessible here,” said Ms Collard. “It’s a gut punch to see these leaders wanting to remove these choices from the table.”

I find it hard to believe any farmer would have a use for a cybertruck though.

FCA member and fifth generation farmer Peter Stray penned a letter to the federal government in support of the standards last year