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Luxury cars, cigarettes and beer purchases are helping to prop up the budget.

Sin taxes prop up the budget, but the most important one is fading

From fuel to fancy cars and a cold one at the pub, there are some vices – and necessities – that are carrying an extra cost.

  • Millie Muroi

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An artist’s impression of how the area around the SRL’s Clayton station might look.

Fewer car parks, more fees: The Melbourne suburbs facing a ‘car lite’ overhaul

Strict parking space limits could be imposed on suburbs with SRL stations, including Cheltenham, Clayton, Box Hill, Monash, Glen Waverley and Burwood.

  • Daniella White
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A composite conundrum for the Old Continent

And an international roast for coffee snobs.

Three large utes pack into spaces in a city carpark on Thursday.

Mega-car in a mini space: How SUVs are reshaping Australian car parks

A proposal to lengthen parking bays to accommodate enormous vehicles has attracted more than 1200 submissions.

  • Madeleine Heffernan
Andrea Cook in her carpark that she no longer needs since she decided to live without a car.

A tortuous path: The push to get Melburnians to ditch their cars

For all the ambitions of policymakers to shift the state’s deeply ingrained driving culture, data suggests Victorians are not ready to let go of their steering wheels.

  • Daniella White and Sophie Aubrey
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Motorists are being screwed

As tyre sales go through the roof.

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Bronte Mosley, 18, from Melbourne has accrued 85 hours in her quest to gain her licence.

Teaching your teen to drive? Don’t panic

Many parents dread the thought of being their child’s driving instructor, but it doesn’t have to be a fraught experience.

  • Claire Heaney
Victorian Minister for Public and Active Transport Gabrielle Williams

Cabcharge review ordered as hospital blasts ‘utterly disgraceful, unethical and unacceptable’ conduct

The Victorian government will review of the company after revelations that many cab drivers from Australia’s largest taxi fleet have been rorting customers.

  • Henrietta Cook and Nick McKenzie
A Nissan electric vehicle displayed inside the company’s Ginza showroom in Tokyo.

Scrapping $97b Honda deal would leave Nissan stranded

Like the driver who stubbornly insists they know where they’re going but ends up lost, pride may have caught up with Nissan when it shelved its tie-up with Honda.

  • Gearoid Reidy
Tesla’s Model 3 is struggling in particular.

Is it the Musk effect? Tesla sales slump in Australia and Europe

The plunge in Tesla sales comes amid Musk’s increasing involvement in global politics and rising competition from China.

  • David Swan

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