Australian Financial Review

11 hours ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

Apr 24, 2025 – 1.40pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Shanghai | The most remarkable thing at Auto Shanghai, the world’s largest motor show, was not the halls of gleaming new electric vehicles, with brands and shapes almost too numerous to count.

1 day ago | afr.com | Ronald Mizen |Michael Read

Apr 23, 2025 – 5.42pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has quietly backflipped on a pledge made just two days ago to keep Labor’s tax breaks for electric vehicle drivers, in his second major policy U-turn of the federal election campaign.

1 day ago | afr.com | Ronald Mizen

Apr 23, 2025 – 12.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? There’s a joke that goes something like this: how do you know if a politician is lying? The answer: their mouth is moving. It’s a joke that speaks to a cynical view of politics and is, in the main, not true in Australia. But election campaigns are desperate things.

1 day ago | afr.com | Ronald Mizen |Nila Sweeney |Tom Rabe

Ronald Mizen, Nila Sweeney and Tom RabeApr 23, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Labor and the Coalition face electoral upheaval in traditionally safe seats where housing affordability has deteriorated rapidly, making Millennial and Generation Z voters more likely to turn away from the major parties.

1 day ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

Apr 23, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? What is it? The Mercedes-Benz G580 is a fully electric version of the G-Class off-roader. The company was using the Mercedes-EQ sub-brand for its electric models, now its uses “Mercedes-Benz with EQ Technology”. And what does 580 stand for, you ask (I certainly did)? It doesn’t relate to power, or anything else specific.