Each week of the 2019 Australian federal election campaign, Guardian Australia will take a quick look back at what was the hot topic of the week. This week the Coalition went to war on Labor's electric vehicle policy – which would require 50% of new vehicles sold by 2030 to be electric. "It's a war on the weekend," Scott Morrison warned. "We are going to stand by our tradies; we are going to save their utes," Michaela Cash claimed. Later in the week, Toyota was forced to distance itself from a Liberal party campaign that used targeted Facebook ads to falsely claim Labor wanted to tax Toyota Hiluxes and other popular utes. It also emerged that the Coalition had an identical target for electric vehicles.
