An ambitious plan to halve the number of Australian road deaths is in tatters, with a fourth consecutive national toll increase marking the worst result since the advent of seatbelts.
Some 1300 people were killed on the nation's roads in 2024, up from 1258 the previous year and a 12-year high.
A landmark 2020 federal strategy to slash deaths by 2030 is "wildly off-track", according to the Austra...
