No

The Government should advocate and incentivise the use of EVs over ICEs, but building a charging network - no. When it becomes economically viable, existing companies in the energy & EV market will build out these networks - but this will require the tipping point for EV adoption to be reached.

Given the fiasco of the children's hospital, I would also argue there is absolutely no way that the Government can be trusted with a project of this scale.

Additionally, if the Government builds out this charging network, I have no doubt there will be cronyism (the appointment of friends and associates to positions of authority, without proper regard to their qualifications) when it comes to who profits from use of the network.