Victorian federal MP Sarah Henderson says she wants tougher standards for international drivers in Australia after a deadly holiday period on the country's roads.
The more than 60 deaths over the official holiday season finished off a year in which Australia had reversed the rising road tolls for 2015 and 2016 that followed a long decline.
The Liberal Ms Henderson says one in five crashes on Victoria's famous Great Ocean Road, for example, involves an international driver.
"I'm not just talking about tourists. I'm also talking about those on temporary and permanent visas. We want to make sure that they have the appropriate driver capacity and skill to drive very complex and challenging roads like the Great Ocean Road."
The Great Ocean Road draws 300,000 international visitors per year.
But Victoria's acting police commissioner, Shane Patton, says there are many things Australia needs to consider before changing the driving laws for international visitors.
"You know, it needs to be assessed against what are our international requirements that we need to fill, as well as what's the extent of the issues and what is the problem."
And road-safety experts insist international drivers are responsible for only a small percentage of accidents.
The Centre for Road Safety's Bernard Carlon says international drivers are not the problem.
"The international drivers who visit here and hire cars actually don't figure significantly in our road toll, and that hasn't changed over the last few years."
Mr Carlon is calling for all drivers to just slow down and take care.
"Stay under the speed limit and drive to the conditions, and we'd have a massive reduction in the number of families who are affected every day from fatalities and serious injuries on our roads."
In New South Wales, the number of lives lost on the roads over the holiday period doubled in comparison with the previous year.
In all, 28 deaths were recorded in New South Wales, 18 in Victoria, eight in Queensland, three in South Australia, five in Western Australia and one in the Northern Territory.
New South Wales deputy police commissioner Catherine Burn says many of the deaths could have been prevented.
"Many of those people who died, it was completely avoidable and it was senseless. And many of those people were innocent people who were either passengers in vehicles or just doing the right thing on the road."
Police say speed, fatigue and alcohol are the three big killers on Australia's roads.
Two in five road crashes involve excessive speed.
Catherine Burn, too, is telling drivers to slow down.
"The problem with speeding is it takes so much longer to stop if you have to react quickly to something. And the faster you're going, the harder you hit and the more likely you will die or you will kill somebody else."
