Consultation on proposed changes to the way heavy vehicle charges are set and invested

Public submissions to consultation on proposed Heavy Vehicle Road Reform

Public submissions to the consultation on proposed changes to the way heavy vehicle charges are set and invested closed on 28 October 2020. For more information about the proposed changes, please refer to the consultation page.

Submissions are published below in the order they were received. Only submissions that requested to be kept in confidence have been omitted from publication.

Heavy Vehicle Road Reform Phase One

Improve transparency around expenditure, investment and service delivery

The first phase of the Heavy Vehicle Road Reforms (HVRR) is focused on improving transparency around:

  • road spending,
  • road assets, and
  • levels of service for heavy vehicle road users.

Fundamentally, properly functioning markets require informed users and road providers. The measures outlined below, aim to establish a baseline of information required to transition to the provision of heavy vehicle infrastructure as an economic service over the longer term:

Background on Heavy Vehicle Road Reform

The ultimate goal of heavy vehicle road reform is to turn the provision of heavy vehicle road infrastructure into an economic service where feasible. This would see a market established that links heavy vehicle user needs with the level of service they receive, the charges they pay and the investment of those charges back into heavy vehicle road services.

Navigation Act 2012

The Navigation Act 2012 commenced on 1 July 2013. The Act replaces the century old Navigation Act 1912 with a contemporary legislative framework for maritime regulation. The Act reflects changes in the maritime sector and is the primary legislative means for the Australian Government to regulate international ship and seafarer safety, shipping aspects of protecting the marine environment and the actions of seafarers in Australian waters.

Progress on Indigenous Road Safety Forum September 2004

Recommended actions: advice from the Indigenous Road Safety Working Group

Note: More details on initiatives to improve indigenous road safety will be available before the end of 2005 at the HealthInfoNet indigenous road safety website and in the updated report on Australian Indigenous Road Safety by the ARRB Group.

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Indigenous Road Safety Forum 2004

Road Safety, with assistance from the Northern Territory Department of Infrastructure and Planning, organised and chaired the third indigenous road safety forum held in Alice Springs on 27 and 28 September 2004. Previous forums were held in Adelaide in 2002 and in Darwin in 1999. The forum aimed to enhance and build on existing strategies and initiatives relevant to indigenous road safety and provide a resource-sharing and networking opportunity to help empower communities to implement practical solutions to indigenous road safety problems.

Indigenous Road Safety Forum, Broome, Western Australia, October 2006

Summary

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, with assistance from the Office of Road Safety in Western Australia, convened the 2006 Indigenous Road Safety Forum from 23–25 October 2006 in Broome.

About 60 people from a range of professions in the health, safety, justice and education sectors attended the forum.

Forum delegates reacted positively to the opportunity to work with and develop communication networks with their road safety colleagues to identify further actions to improve road safety outcomes for Indigenous people.

Transcript: Being Safe, Not Sorry

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Being Safe, Not Sorry

Improving road safety for Indigenous Australians

Presented by Catherine Liddle

Warning: this documentary may contain images and voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Viewer discretion is advised. The views and opinions of authors expressed in this film do not necessarily state or reflect those of the Australian Government.

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