The Albanese Labor Government's appetite for raiding regional Australia for inner city votes knows no end.  

Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen is hell-bent on reaching unattainable emissions targets, and - now it is blatantly clear he cannot meet Labor’s political 2030 target - he is finding tricky ways to reduce emissions, and yet again Labor’s eyes turn to regional Australia.

Not content with railroading regional Australians with thousands of kilometres of transmission lines, solar panels and wind turbines, now Labor literally wants to slow down regional Australia to ‘save the planet’.

Minister for Infrastructure Catherine King’s mini 4-week consultation on ‘Reducing default speed limits outside of built-up areas’ to potentially 70 kms per hour - down from 100km per hour - has outraged regional communities.  

The Coalition pressured her into granting a two-week extension to Monday 10 November and by raising the alarm, eliciting over 1,800 submissions so far. Please add your voice!

The Government’s consultation paints the speed limit deliberations as being about the regional road toll, which we all want to reduce. However, the supporting documents show Labor's real objective is to reduce emissions from fuel consumption by slowing down regional drivers.

Labor has ‘net zero’ regard for regional Australians.

In Victoria, the Albanese Labor Government alone has taken away $5.5 billion in road and infrastructure project cancellations, cuts and delays, since they came into power in 2022.

The Albanese Labor government is not interested in repairing aging, neglected roads, or funding councils to fix them.  

Labor is closing the Coalition-era Local Roads and Community Infrastructure program on 30 June 2026.  Councils value ‘LRCI’ because they received guaranteed money every year to spend on their own road and infrastructure priorities, not the Federal Government’s priorities.

In recent years Swan Hill Rural City Council used LRCI to fund reconstruction of the Boundary Bend – Kooloonong Road and Woorinen Road.

To make your view known on Labor’s plan to slash default regional speed limits from 100 kilometres an hour to as low as 70 km/h, go to Infrastructure.gov.au and click through to Have Your Say, or type in:

https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/have-your-say/regulatory-impact-analysis-reduce-open-road-default-speed-limit