BusVic releases 2026 State Election Advocacy

BusVic, the industry body representing Victoria's family owned bus companies, has released advocacy in time for this year's state election. BusVic backgroundNever heard of BusVic? There have been times when the Association was legally and politically influential. Most notably in the late 1980s when it supported a successful Supreme Court challenge to the Cain government's bungled bus contracting (the Waverley Transit case - see AUSTLII transcripts for 1988 and 1989). And in the early 2000s its CEO John Stanley was the most effective advocate for what became the state's biggest ever bus service expansion program in the 2005 State Budget and delivered under the 2006 MOTC plan. Your bus probably runs on Sundays due to the minimum service standards campaign that BusVic ran, and the Bracks-Brumby government largely adopted. A continuing BusVic theme has been to resist the takeover of local family run bus operators by government and later large, often multinational, private companies. The…