Peter Dutton has pledged to keep a tax break for electric vehicles that has blown out tenfold in cost and which the opposition earlier dismissed as bad policy, as the major parties abandon budget repair in the countdown to the election.
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Michael Read is the Financial Review's economics correspondent, reporting from the federal press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia and at UBS. Connect with Michael on Twitter. Email Michael at michael.read@afr.com