DRIVE NOW August 2021
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TAA Meetings<br />
with relevant industry stakeholders<br />
General meeting with Rod Barton, MP<br />
TAA recently held a General Meeting via Zoom last month, and we had the pleasure<br />
of having the Leader of the Transport Matters Party, Rod Barton MP, join and share<br />
with us and attendees what he and Transport Matters Party (TMP) have been up to<br />
in the last several months.<br />
After Mr Barton’s rundown of achievements and changes within the CPV<br />
(Commercial Passenger Vehicle) industry in the last six months, there was time for<br />
some questions and answers.<br />
We also received an update on industry happenings in<br />
Victoria and Queensland.<br />
The work of Barton and TMP has been crucial in the shift<br />
towards fairer treatment towards taxis and hire cars in<br />
Victoria – below are accomplishments Barton spoke on.<br />
Transport Alliance Australia – looking after<br />
the interests of those in the Australian<br />
commercial passenger transport sector.<br />
Touting<br />
Barton was successful in getting<br />
legislation updated so as to make<br />
touting illegal in Victoria. Although<br />
the regulator, Commercial<br />
Passenger Vehicles Victoria (CPVV),<br />
failed to enforce this law for the<br />
first 12 months, after a great deal<br />
of advocacy and dealing with<br />
not only the Minister’s office but<br />
Melbourne Airport and the federal<br />
police, it is being taken more<br />
seriously.<br />
Advisory Panel<br />
Barton was invited to the Advisory<br />
Panel late last year to answer<br />
to Transport Minister Carroll on<br />
COVID-19 impact on the CPV<br />
industry. The meetings didn’t go<br />
perfectly, but they managed to<br />
get the CPV industry the largest<br />
support package in the country,<br />
double the size of NSW’s. The main<br />
thing is they were able to keep<br />
emergency services running during<br />
the pandemic – wheelchair services.<br />
Barton was also instrumental<br />
in moving the review of the<br />
Multi-Purpose Taxi Program<br />
(MPTP), which is a huge concern<br />
of the Victorian CPV industry to<br />
a parliamentary inquiry instead<br />
of focusing on it in the Panel.<br />
Inquiries<br />
Barton and his team have<br />
secured other parliamentary<br />
inquiries. One is the inquiry into<br />
Homelessness – which consists<br />
of 51 recommendations. Barton<br />
14 <strong>August</strong> <strong>2021</strong>
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