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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Boat and Trailer Registration

Ms PRATT (Frome) (14:46): My question is to the Premier. Will the Premier commit to offering rebates to boat and trailer owners who have recently registered their vehicles? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Ms PRATT: On ABC radio this morning, rec fisher Matthew Moate shared concerns that he would not receive the declared compensation on his trailer and boat registration because it will expire after the temporary restrictions are lifted on 30 June 2026.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier, Minister for Defence and Space Industries) (14:46): I appreciate the member for Frome's question because it provides an opportunity to put on the record the details regarding the reduction that we have put in place for rego for boats and trailers as well. We made a very deliberate decision around this to avoid the circumstances to which you refer from the caller on ABC radio. We announced this last week, but there was a lot that was announced, so I can well understand why there is a lack of clarity about this in some parts of the market.

Once the government were making the decision in accordance with the science, as I mentioned, that we were going to reduce bag limits by 50 per cent in Gulf St Vincent and also in Spencer Gulf for some species, we had to turn our minds to what that means for someone registering their boat or their trailer. We made a decision to reduce the cost of registration for both of those things by 50 per cent: reducing bag limits and boat limits by 50 per cent, which reduces the cost of registering a boat and a trailer by 50 per cent.

It is true that people can go to other parts of the state where there are no restrictions and plenty of fish, but lots of the fishing happens in Gulf St Vincent and Spencer Gulf, so we made that decision. It is from 1 December to 1 December, and we made it deliberately a 12-month period because we did not want a set of circumstances where someone registered their boat in September and then missed out on the benefits. By doing it for a full 12-month period, we catch everyone whose registration comes up during that period of time, which would include the gentleman on ABC radio to whose circumstances you referred.

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