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STATE government measures to support residents with cost-of-living issues began on Monday 1 June.<\/p>\n

Victorians can now claim 20 per cent off their car registration until 31 July.<\/p>\n

Public transport is also half-price until the end of the year.<\/p>\n

“We know how reliant so many people in country Victoria are on their cars, including myself,” Ripon MP Martha Haylett said at Ballarat railway station on Monday.<\/p>\n

“We want to make sure that they can get just that bit of money back on their car rego in these tough times when fuel prices are really high, and the cost of living is really biting people.”<\/p>\n

Haylett said when it once cost people from Ararat and Maryborough up to $50 to get to Melbourne and back, it was now a maximum of $5.70.<\/p>\n

“That is a huge win for people in country Victoria, so that they’re not having to pay so much for public transport,” she said.<\/p>\n

She said the free public transport period this year had led to a favourable outcome.<\/p>\n

“A lot of people were catching it that otherwise probably wouldn’t have caught public transport before,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It was a huge success and that’s why we want to make sure that until the end of this year, we can have half-price public transport so that people can get that cost saving, just get that little bit more money back in their pocket.”<\/p>\n

Haylett said the government would consider the potential of keeping the price fixed.<\/p>\n

“We’ll have a look at that and I think the data will be really important now that people are using their Myki and tickets again to be able to see that uplift and how many people are taking this up,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I can’t pre-empt any announcements, but I think that it’s important to make public transport as accessible as possible.”<\/p>\n

Residents who have paid their car registration in the past financial year will be able to receive a rebate.<\/p>\n

They will be able to claim $186 per car for up to two cars.<\/p>\n

More information and to claim the rebate at service.vic.gov.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

STATE government measures to support residents with cost-of-living issues began on Monday 1 June. Victorians can now claim 20 per cent off their car registration until 31 July. Public transport is also half-price until the end of the year. “We know how reliant so many people in country Victoria are on their cars, including myself,” […]<\/p>\n

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