Industry Submissions

Submission to NTC on Heavy Vehicle Road User Charge

April 17, 2015
This submission highlights the impact implementation of the NTC’s recommended 2015 increase in the RUC, together with ongoing gaseous transport fuel excise increases and the reintroduction of fuel excise...

Submission to NTC on Australian Dangerous Goods- Amendment Package - ADG74 Review

March 3, 2015
This submission, Gas Energy Australia supports the Amendment Package No.3, subject to section 11.2.1 (d) an international or foreign standard that corresponds to the Dangerous Goods – Initial Emergency...

Gas Energy Australia - Pitt&Sherry Harmonisation Report – Turning up the heat

February 19, 2015
This report provides a brief overview of how the regulatory environment affects the downstream gaseous fuels industry. It highlights the scale of costs and wasted effort that unnecessary, poorly harmonised...

Submission to the Federal Treasury on 2015 Remake of the Excise Regulations

February 17, 2015
This submission, Gas Energy Australia welcomes the intent of the proposed design changes to the Regulations to improve their operation, including repealing redundant provisions, simplifying language and...

Submission to National Transport Commission on Chain of Responsibility Review NOV 2014

January 30, 2015
In this submission Gas Energy Australia supported amending the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) to provide an overarching, HVNL-wide general duty - based on the general duties contained within the model...

Submission to WorkCover NSW on Proposed Changes to the Model Work Health and Safety Regulation

January 21, 2015
Gas Energy Australia welcomes the reduction in unnecessary prescription and notes that removing prescription from regulation allows Australia Standards such as; AS/NZS 1596: Storage and handling of LPG...

Submission to the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee on Transport Energy Resilience and Sustainability

November 14, 2014
This submission will address the following issues identified in the Inquiry’s Terms of Reference as being of particular relevance to Australia‘s transport energy resilience and sustainability: options...

Submission to the Federal Department of Industry on Energy White Paper Green Paper

November 5, 2014
This submission focuses on the four top level strategic objectives which complement the Green Paper’s goals: safeguarding transportation through fuel supply diversification; cutting energy costs in regional...

Submission to the Federal Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development on Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989

October 29, 2014
This submission seeks to highlight key issues that Gas Energy Australia considers should be addressed in the Review of the Act, especially barriers that could discourage the take-up of alternative transport...

Submission to NSW Fair Trading on Home Building Regulation 2014

August 14, 2014
Gas Energy Australia supports the proposal outlined in the RIS to consolidate ‘LP Gasfitting’ into the ‘Gasfitting’ category on the basis that practitioners have the same training and should be...