Victorian road usage fee declared invalid by High Court

The High Court has declared that Victoria's zero and low emission vehicles road-user charge is invalid because they determined it to be an excise and only the Commonwealth can do that. Here's the High Court's statement and here's the full decision. The decision was released about 30 min ago so the Victorian government hasn't made a statement yet, but you'd assume it puts an end to VicRoads collecting the fee from all ZLEV drivers and hopefully, a refund on the money they illegally collected. It also means that the federal government now has to hurry up and come up with a replacement for the fuel excise at a national level - like it should have done years ago when hybrids and fuel efficient vehicles were already chipping away at fuel excise revenue.