Infrastructure Partnerships Australia has been a loud and consistent advocate for road reform with a series of policy papers, submissions and advocacy campaigns since their inception. Establishing a distance-based road user charge aligns with Infrastructure Partnerships Australia’s 2019 Road user charging for electric vehicles paper and preceding works, which advocate for the application of a distance-based user charge for electric vehicles initially, before extending this charge to the entire fleet over time.

While the recent High Court of Australia decision in Vanderstock v Victoria gave rise to a detour on the road to reform, the policy position of road user charging remains the clearest and most efficient pathway to secure long-term funding for our roads. The federal and state and territory governments must now navigate a pathway forward together to ensure all motorists in Australia pay their fair share for Australia's network.