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Minister’s response to CPSA’s E10 fuel concerns
2010-08-30 10:23:00 Voice Editorial Team
IN the April edition of THE VOICE, an article on the replacement of regular unleaded petrol (ULP) with ethanol-based petrol (E10) around NSW was published.
CPSA has since received a response from Minister for Lands Tony Kelly clarifying
AS part of CPSA’s ongoing support for the Save Our Rally group in the Hunter, three members of CPSA’s Executive went along to protest alongside Save Our Rail members. The protest was held outside a meeting calling for the removal of th
DID you know that if you have a permanent disability, which prevents you from taking public transport or driving a car, you can access taxi vouchers to help cover the cost of travel by cab?
THE NRMA seems a little confused. On the one hand they support the Older Driver Test. The NRMA gave its support shortly after the test’s implementation and their Older Driver testing courses have been a nice little money spinner over the pas
Disability parking permit scheme a done deal (depending on who you talk to)
2009-11-26 15:47:00 Voice Editorial Team
ON 4 September, CPSA wrote to the Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities Bill Shorten and the NSW Minister for Ageing, Disability Services and Home Care Paul Lynch about the Australian Government’s plan to ‘harmonise’ d
FOR a number of years now, the RTA has offered the Photo ID Card. A Photo ID Card looks just like a driver’s licence except it doesn’t allow you to drive.
It was introduced to give people who do not have a driver’s lic
CPSA joined transport and community organisations, including Trains On Our Tracks (TOOT), NSW Farmers, the CWA, Save Our Rail, the Australian Conservation Foundation and the RTBU, at NSW Parliament House on 20 October, rallying against a bill that
Support for the closure of the Newcastle rail line based on skewed stats
2009-10-01 09:59:00 Voice Editorial Team
READ the survey commissioned by the Minister for the Hunter, Jodi McKay that found 93% of Hunter residents favour action to revitalise the city of Newcastle, and you’ll soon find that its results are tentative at best.
ON 17 August, the [Newcastle] Herald ran an advertisement which called for the Hunter Development Coroporation’s (HDC) renewal report to be implemented in order to ‘Fix Our City’.
ACCORDING to the full page ad in Newcastle Herald on Monday 17 August (see page 1), it appears that the Newcastle developers have finally lost the plot entirely.
Claiming that 93 per cent of Hunter residents want action to revive &ldquo
Pension Excursion Ticket for rural and regional NSW
2009-08-31 12:46:00 Voice Editorial Team
PENSIONERS and seniors in rural and regional NSW are experiencing cheaper public transport, with the introduction of a $2.50 all day, multi-use bus ticket.
Unfortunately it seems many members of CPSA are unaware of what the service is an
REVELATIONS this month that RailCorp provides about 26,000 people with free rail, bus and ferry fares for life have caused outrage amongst Sydney commuters.
After 30 years of service, RailCorp employees are entitled to a ‘Gold Pass
New rural & regional discount Pensioner Excursion Ticket
2009-01-28 16:12:00 Voice Editorial Team
PENSIONERS AND seniors in rural and regional NSW can now enjoy similar discounted travel enjoyed by city and metropolitan pensioners and seniors after the NSW Government announced a $2.50 all day, multi-use bus ticket.
WHILE THE NSW State Government continues to slug pensioners with a booking fee when they choose to use their supposedly ‘free’ CountryLink Travel Vouchers, the Victorian Government has decided to take a different approach and expand free Sunday publi
VOICE readers will remember the assurance Roads Minister Eric Roozendaal gave to CPSA on 19 February 2007 that the pensioner car rego exemption was safe and that nothing would change.
That was plain English on the part of the Minister.
What the older driver testing changes mean for you
2008-05-01 14:33:00 Voice Editorial Team
THE new older driver testing regime will start in early 2009. When contacted in mid-April, the RTA couldn’t say anything about how the transition to the new rules would work.
Presumably all drivers will be put through the wringer of the old annua
THE NRMA has endorsed the reforms announced by the Roads Minister.
Without question this is a major u-turn. The NRMA has gone from opposing medical and on-road testing to supporting it. But not only that. Its driving school franchises will be
CountryLink booking fee: Government doesn’t even want to talk about it
2008-05-01 14:09:00 Voice Editorial Team
AS predicted in the March 2008 issue of THE VOICE, draft legislation introduced by the NSW Opposition to abolish the CountryLink booking fee got nowhere.
THE NSW Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell has made a very early election promise.
THE VOICE sincerely hopes that he doesn’t have to keep it if he does become the next Premier and that older driver testing will be a thing of the past well before M
How the NSW Government frustrates CPSA FOI applications
AND not just CPSA applications either, but let’s talk about CPSA’s recent application under Freedom of Information (FOI) to RailCorp about the CountryLink pensioner booking fee.<
EVERY election plans for an expressway through the Blue Mountains are officially revived. If it’s a state election, the NSW Government will do the reviving and call on the federal Government to go ‘dol
In a response to a Letter to the Editor, THE VOICE reported that pensioners were eligible for a car rego exemption on multiple vehicles. This is incorrect. Each pensioner is entitled to exemption on one vehicle, be that a car, or trailer or a truck.
CountryLink booking fee for Pensioner Travel Vouchers
2007-02-26 11:28:00 Paul Versteege, Policy Coordinator
AMONG all the empty promises, commitments and boasting about very modest achievements by the various political parties and candidates, pensioners should take note of one issue in particular.
It’s the CountryLink booking fee for Pensioner Travel
WHEN CPSA contacted John Bartlett, the Labor member for Port Stephens, about the booking fee on the Countrylink Pensioner Travel Vouchers we received a surprising response.
“I understand community representatives overwhelmingly indicated they we
All aboard Community transport expands eligibility
2006-05-02 10:09:00 Susan Gentle
Community transport enables many frail older people and people with a disability to attend medical appointments, social outings and to visit family and friends.
The recent expansion of eligibility criteria for community transport is good new
A CPSA member recently had her wallet stolen in a shopping mall.
She had no means of identification and took her power bill as proof of identity to the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) to get a new licence. She also produced an old licence, b
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