This presentation summarises our draft decisions on changes in regulated electricity retail prices from 1 July 2011, and recommended actions to improve electricity affordability.
Twenty years ago the Greiner Government established the first independent economic price regulator in Australia. Perhaps the boldness of that step is not fully appreciated.
Driver labour costs are the largest component of the taxi cost indices (TCIs). Notional driver wages are currently weighted at 39.1% of total cost for urban taxis, and 42.2% for country taxis.