(Caleb Bond’s post from the SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA on 10 November 2025.)
China's dumping ground: Labor actively encouraging
foreign firms to flood Australian market in pursuit of ambitious 2035 EV
targets. Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen’s net zero goal of multiplying new
electric car sales many times over is punishing Australia and enriching China.
Australia has become a dumping ground for Chinese
electric vehicles. And it’s a perfect business model for Chinese manufacturers
because the federal government is effectively paying them to do it while they
artificially squeeze everyone else out of the market.
As widely reported, a number of locations off the beaten track have been commandeered to store the swathes of cars China is sending our way. Jamberoo Action Park, about two hours down the road from Sydney, was turned into a storage facility for BYD until Kiama Council intervened and forced the cars to be moved this week.
Thousands of Jaecoo cars – made by Chinese builder
Chery – are also sitting right next to RAAF Base Amberley, south of Brisbane. Amberley
is Australia’s largest air force base. That, in and of itself, is of great
concern.
Why, of all places, would land next to a RAAF base
be the perfect spot to offload a few thousand Chinese cars which defence and
security experts warn are basically mass surveillance devices? It is not
unusual to see newly delivered cars sitting idle next to air or shipping ports
but it is strange for them to be delivered and then taken far away.
BYD, for example, has imported about 50,000 cars over the past year but 13,000 have yet to be sold. So they’re sitting around doing nothing – but BYD doesn’t care. In fact, that’s their plan. Chinese manufacturers are engaging in a trade tactic called dumping, whereby you export a product to a foreign country and then sell it below the odds.
They are achieving this by saturating the market. China
is now the second-highest source of cars in Australia. So they flood the
country with EVs above the rate of demand. Basic market forces dictate that the
greater supply, the lower the price, so competitors are forced to drop their
prices to compete with abundant and cheap Chinese cars.
Competitors find that hard to maintain so China seizes control of the market and, all of a sudden, you’re strongarmed into buying a Chinese car. And the Albanese government is actively encouraging them to do it.
Here in Australia right now, EV manufacturers are
issued carbon credits from the government on the basis of how many cars they
import – not how many are sold. The more cars they bring in, the more carbon
credits they are given. Those can then be either sold to companies wanting to
offset their pollution or back to the government. It’s essentially free money
for EV manufacturers.
So they’re dumping to take over the market and
being paid handsomely by the government for doing so. This is the truth of
Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen’s net zero dream – it punishes Australians and
enriches China.
Just as it is with solar panels which are largely
produced in China with our metals and then sold back to us, so it is with
electric vehicles. Half of all cars sold between now and 2035 have to be EVs to
meet our net zero targets. That won’t happen – but China will have made bank.
