Thursday, 18 June 2026

 David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (14:01): (2415) My constituency question today is for the minister for transport. I am in possession of correspondence from Mircina Mayas, who is in my electorate, in the Albert Park section. She is a person who owns taxi licences. She makes the very important point that the levy the state government put on at the time commenced at a dollar per trip. It has now increased to $1.20 per trip plus GST, and the state continues to collect it, although the payments which were intended to support people who had had their licences stripped away and torn away without proper compensation have stopped. The state government continues to collect this levy. Ms Mayas was left with a legacy debt of $190,000 because she had borrowings against it. I ask that the minister intervene and ask some questions about where that money is going and find out what steps are taken there.