Taxi deregulation plan is costing local cabbies their livelihoods


20th October 2022
Have just addressed a rally of the State's taxi drivers outside Parliament House to back them in their fight against proposed government reforms which will leave most of them high and dry.

¿ Have just addressed a rally of the State's taxi drivers outside Parliament House to back them in their fight against proposed government reforms which will leave most of them high and dry.
¿ The government plans to deregulate the taxi industry following the infiltration into the market of rideshare operators such as Uber.
¿ That deregulation includes buying back all the taxi plates. Some of those cost local drivers more than $300,000, but the compensation offered to plate owners in the Lake Macquarie and Hunter Region will be a maximum of $55,000. It's just one of many holes in the government's plan.
¿ The proposed deal is a poor one and I will not back it in its current form.
¿ I, along with my independent colleagues Alex Greenwich (Sydney), Dr Joe McGirr MP (Wagga Wagga) and Helen Dalton MP (Murray) are working with the government to find a fairer deal, and it'll certainly be one which doesn't destroy the livelihoods of so many of our local cabbies.

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