{"id":90957,"date":"1999-12-31T00:54:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/uber-cleared-to-operate-in-vic\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:54:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:54:00","slug":"uber-cleared-to-operate-in-vic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/uber-cleared-to-operate-in-vic\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber Cleared To Operate In VIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria has become the latest Australian state or territory where ride-sharing service Uber can operate legally, after a Melbourne Uber driver won a landmark appeal.<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif;\n\nmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:\n\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU;\n\nmso-bidi-language:AR-SA\">It joins NSW, South Australia and the ACT, where Uber<\/p>\n<p>activities have already been cleared. Queensland and WA remain the major<\/p>\n<p>holdouts.<\/p>\n<p>Driver Nathan Brenner was found guilty last year by a Victorian magistrate on<\/p>\n<p>two counts of operating a commercial passenger vehicle without a licence,<\/p>\n<p>effectively outlawing Uber in the state. He was fined $900. But Victorian<\/p>\n<p>County Court judge Geoffrey Chettle, hearing his appeal, on Wednesday dismissed<\/p>\n<p>the charges and ordered the Taxi Services Commission to pay Brenner&#8217;s costs.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition transport spokesman David Hodgett yesterday hailed the decision,<\/p>\n<p>saying that the Victorian Government had wasted taxpayers&#8217; money trying to<\/p>\n<p>fight Uber instead of regulating the service to provide industry certainty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not about taxis versus Uber, but rather what ways we can get our<\/p>\n<p>city moving in the most efficient way,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria has become the latest Australian state or territory where ride-sharing service Uber can operate legally, after a Melbourne Uber driver won a landmark appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-archive","category-business","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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