Media Releases
The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) welcomes the Government’s much anticipated response to the Bracks Review of the Australian Automotive Industry. ‘A New Car Plan for a Greener Future’ (New Car Plan) is a well articulated and considered policy response to the environmental challenges of transferring to a carbon restricted economy.
more>Following GMAC Financial Services announcement that it would be withdrawing from its Australian wholesale and retail operations, the Australian Automobile Dealers Association (AADA) understands many of its members now face considerable uncertainty in terms of their existing finance arrangements.
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) welcomes the introduction of the Trade Practices Amendment Legislation Bill 2008 (the Bill), because it will offer retail motor traders and other small business operators long denied access to justice against unfair and anti-competitive behaviour.
more>As the national peak body for the new vehicle retail sector, the Australian Automobile Dealers Association (AADA) urges the Government to reconsider the retrospective application of the increase in Luxury Car Tax (LCT).
more>The Australian Automobile Dealers Association (AADA) is disappointed by the Treasurer’s announcement yesterday that the Luxury Car Tax (LCT) will be increased.
more>The ACCC Petrol Commissioner’s warning to consumers regarding the pricing policies at Coles Express sites and the use of shopper dockets by consumers when purchasing petrol vindicate the Motor Trade Association of Australia’s (MTAA) long held belief that consumers are overpaying the Supermarkets/Oil Companies. MTAA is not at all surprised by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (the Commission) statements regarding Coles Express pricing.
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA), representing 100,000 retail motor trade businesses with a combined turnover of over $120 billion and which employ over 316,000 people, has, since its inception, advocated for legislation that restores lost fairness and competition to the marketplace. MTAA believes that a stronger Trade Practices Act 1974 will be of benefit to not only small business, but to our Society more broadly, by ensuring a diversity of competitors and choice for consumers.
more>Australian motorists have suffered from unfair retail petrol prices for far too long at the hands of oil companies. These prices have been outside the control of petrol retailers as they do not set them.
more>The Government’s appointment of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Petrol Commissioner, Mr Patrick Walker, is welcomed by the Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA).
more>MTAA welcomes the Report of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (the Commission) Inquiry into the Price of Unleaded Petrol and its finding that some competition exists at the retail level. However, of great interest and relevance for MTAA is that the Report has concluded that competition at the wholesale level is not wholly effective. So we have said for years, in every one of our submissions to Government and the Commission.
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA), representing 100,000 retail motor trade businesses with a combined turnover of over $120 billion and which employ over 316,000 people, has, since its inception, advocated for legislation that restores lost fairness and competition to the marketplace. MTAA thus welcomes the Senate’s passage of the Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2007 and congratulates the Government for introducing further amendments on predatory pricing behaviour.
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) has long fought to protect small business from anti-competitive behaviour and has vigorously advocated for reforms to the Trade Practices Act 1974. The Association has also been concerned for many years about predatory behaviour and supports the introduction of measures which will address our concerns, and those shared by our members, about such behaviour.
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) believes that a strong and viable small business sector is an essential element of a competitive market and thus welcomes the Government’s announcement of higher collective bargaining notification thresholds for petroleum, motor vehicle and farm machinery retailers.
more>The Members of the FTC strongly support a strengthening of the Trade Practices Act and therefore welcome today’s announcement that the Government intends to reintroduce the Dawson Bill, with amendments, into the Parliament.
more>MTAA learnt yesterday of amendments to the Petroleum Retail Legislation Repeal Bill 2006 to be moved by Senator Fielding on behalf of Family First in the committee of the whole of the Senate.
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) today welcomed the launch of the Farm and Industrial Machinery Dealers’ Association of Australia (FIMDAA).
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) has welcomed Justice Allsop’s decision in the Federal Court matter of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and Woolworths.
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA), and its constituent the Australian Service Station and Convenience Store Association (ASSCSA), welcome the establishment by the Senate of a Petrol Price Inquiry to be undertaken by the Senate Economics Committee.
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) and its national representative Trade Association Member, the Australian Motor Body Repairers Association (AMBRA), welcome the outcome of the Smash Repair and Insurance Industry Implementation Taskforce.
more>With petrol prices at or near record highs, the Executive Director of the Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA), the representative body of all service station operators, Michael Delaney, today warned that the situation was unlikely to improve in the long-term if the Australian Government did not address the increasing dominance that the two supermarket joint ventures have in the retail petroleum market.
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia, which represents service station operators, is extremely disappointed that the Government has introduced legislation to repeal two long-standing Acts which provide rights and protections to service station operators, particularly franchisees, in their dealings with oil companies.
more>The Australian Automobile Dealers Association (AADA) has today called on the Federal Government to abolish the Luxury Car Tax (LCT).
more>In light of the long-term increase in the price of oil, the Australian Service Station and Convenience Store Association (ASSCSA) recently considered its position on the use of bio-fuels.
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) has today welcomed the release of the Productivity Commission’s final report on its inquiry into Smash Repair and Insurance and the Australian Government’s response to the recommendations contained in that report.
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA), which has within its membership the Australian Motor Body Repairers Association (AMBRA), today welcomed the much anticipated announcement by the Treasurer and the Minister for Small Business of a Productivity Commission Inquiry into the Smash Repair industry and the Insurance Industry.
more>The Motor Traders’ Association of New South Wales recently surveyed its franchised motor vehicle dealers and franchised motorcycle dealers about the level of disputation between franchisees and franchisors in the motor vehicle and motorcycle retailing sector.
more>Today at 1.05pm MTAA received a letter from Caltex attaching a Media Release describing an internal review by former judge Mr Andrew Rogers QC of the circumstances and facts attending the composition and circulation by management of its notorious “fear, uncertainty and doubt” memorandum designed to harass and intimidate franchisees.
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) has today welcomed the release of the Productivity Commission’s draft report on its Smash Repair Inquiry; with the key draft recommendations clearly demonstrating a need for change in the relationship between insurers and repairers for the benefit of consumers and the market.
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) has today expressed concern at media reports of a new 12 cent per litre shopper docket discount for consumers who buy a dozen bottles of wine at Coles Myer’s Liquorland outlets.
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) notes that the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has called for “an independent examination of all aspects of the relationship between insurers and smash repairers”.
more>Smash repairers have welcomed today's announcement by the Minister for Small Business, the Hon Joe Hockey MP, that the Federal Government is concerned that problems identified by smash repairers, in relation to their commercial dealings with insurers, are serious and require resolution.
more>MTAA welcomes yesterday’s announcement by the Minister for Small Business and Tourism, the Hon Joe Hockey MP, and the Treasurer, the Hon Peter Costello MP, that the Government intends to introduce legislation in Parliament today to amend the Trade Practices Act 1974 to give effect to the Government’s response to the Dawson Review of the Trade Practices Act.
more>The Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) welcomes the Australian Labor Party's announcement on Sunday of its six-point plan for petrol.
more>The Fair Trading Coalition (FTC) which represents 22 small business organisations committed to reform of the Trade Practices Act today unanimously endorsed all 17 recommendations of the Senate Economics References Committee report into the Effectiveness of the Trade Practices Act in Protecting Small Business.
more>The Fair Trading Coalition (FTC) which represents 22 small business organisations committed to reform of the Trade Practices Act believes that a strengthened Trade Practices Act is necessary for the long term benefit of consumers and Australian society.
more>The ACCC’s decision today to allow the arrangement between Caltex and Woolworths to proceed and to allow the ‘shopper docket’ arrangements between Caltex and Woolworths and Shell and Coles Myer to continue is extremely disappointing.
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