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Starting this week, invitations will be posted to more than 40,000 regional Western Australian households inviting them to take part in a survey about airfares and air travel within WA.

Households in 21 regional towns that have direct flights to and from Perth will receive a letter inviting residents to participate in a 10-15-minute online survey.

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The Western Australian Government will host a series of local community forums in the Wheatbelt, Great Southern, Mid-West and Goldfields regions during July and August to gain inputs from regional communities regarding planned and potential improvements to the State’s agricultural supply chain. 

The forums will assist the Government-established Agricultural Supply Chain Improvements (ASCI) Project Team in preparing a business case for Infrastructure Australia (IA) for a long-term ASCI investment program supporting the movement of agricultural products from farm to destination. In February this year, agricultural supply chain improvements in WA were identified by IA as a priority worthy of investment in its 2021 Infrastructure Priority List. 

The community forums are targeted at growers, people in the road and rail freight industries as well as parties interested in the impact of freight arrangements on regional communities, road safety, community amenity or the environment. They will provide the opportunity for attendees to learn more about current Government investments to improve agricultural freight as well as have a say in how future investment should be directed. 

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Further information and pre-registration is available on the My Say Transport website.

Regulations that took effect on 1 July 2021 have transferred the governance of four commercial ports in the Kimberley and Pilbara to the Port Authorities Act 1999 as part of the second phase of the Government’s ports governance reform agenda.

This regulatory change will transfer the oversight of the four ports from the Department of Transport to regional port authorities, with the ports of Derby, Wyndham and Yampi Sound now governed by the Kimberley Ports Authority, and the Port of Varanus Island by the Pilbara Ports Authority.

The port authorities become the approval body for pilot’s licences and will oversee marine safety and related marine safety plans for the four ports.

All Western Australian port authorities as well as the users and operators at the affected ports were consulted prior to drafting the regulatory changes.

This regulatory change is part of the second phase of the State Government’s ports governance reform that will eventually see oversight of 11 port facilities transfer from the Department of Transport to relevant port authorities.

The first phase of the reform saw the consolidation of seven regional port authorities into the current four regional port authorities – Kimberley, Pilbara, Mid-West and Southern – with Fremantle Port Authority unchanged.

Visit the Ports Governance Review page for more information.

Media contact: media@transport.wa.gov.au