Governments spend their way out of recessions, ours have been slashing funding and laying off thousands, which is compounding the impacts of the high interest rates.
This huge drop is a damning statement on the policy of both the RB and the coalition.
A good example is the 1981 election in New Zealand, where the Labour Party won more votes but the National Party won more seats and formed the government.
The current system of excise tax rewards those with efficient cars (though not EVs) and penalises big polluters.
Unless this comes with an additional carbon/pollution penalty this is going to be great news for V8 Commodore drivers, and terrible news for everyone driving a Toyota Aqua.
In the mean time, salty EV owners get to pay triple the road tax per km that a petrol driven Prius does.
They were relatively quick to pull the 1.13GHz Pentium III from the market when it turned out to have stability issues from pushing Coppermine too far.
This feels like a repeat of that, but with Intel sticking their heads in the sand and screwing over customers instead.
We have a similar mix, though I was referring to the underlying virtualisation providing their cloud hosting.