by admin | Nov 16, 2022 | Achievements, Advocacy, Homelessness, News
The Victorian Government has failed to respond to the formal recommendations from the Inquiry into Homelessness within the required six-month deadline. This report was tabled in March 2021, outlining 51 recommendations to the Government that look to solve the...
by admin | Nov 15, 2022 | Advocacy, Media Releases, News
The community across the Yarra Valley desperately require a duplication of the line between Mooroolbark Train Station and Lilydale. Currently, services and performance are falling below community expectations. In the morning peak, passengers wait up to 34 minutes...
by admin | Nov 10, 2022 | Advocacy, Media Releases, News
On Monday, the NSW Government increased the assistance package to taxi licence holders, from $645 million to $905 million. This package is almost three-fold what Victorian taxi licence holders received. Rod Barton MP is calling on the Andrews Labor Government to...
by admin | Nov 8, 2022 | Advocacy, Media Releases, News
University Students in Victoria face a unique dilemma. In the face of a cost of living crisis, where available rentals are at all-time low and essential items are becoming more expensive by the day, full-time students are expected to survive on part-time incomes....
by admin | Oct 24, 2022 | Advocacy, Media Releases, News
The Victorian Liberal Party have announced that they intend to scrap the Commercial Passenger Trip Levy which was introduced in 2018 to compensate taxi and hire car licence owners after deregulating the industry. Rod Barton MP is calling on Matthew Guy to reverse this...
by admin | Oct 21, 2022 | Advocacy, Media Releases, News
With the Victorian election looming, there is one critical issue that has been neglected by the major parties, the commercial passenger vehicle industry. The industry has a ‘new’ regulator, Transport Safety Victoria, yet this mere name change has failed to alleviate...
