'I'm very sorry': Joe Hockey apologises for comments about poorer people not driving cars

By James Massola
Updated April 23 2018 - 8:15pm, first published August 15 2014 - 3:15pm

Treasurer Joe Hockey has delivered a grovelling apology for suggesting the “poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far” and that the government’s proposed fuel excise increase was a progressive tax measure.

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