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ACAPMA PETROLEUM INDUSTRY REPORT JOIN ACAPMA ACAPMA IS A NATIONAL INDUSTRY BODY REPRESENTING FUEL DISTRIBUTORS AND FUEL RETAILERS IN AUSTRALIA ACAPMA Membership includes access to a range of benefits: • ADVOCACY: on behalf of the industry • EMPLOYMENT & COMPLIANCE: advice, support health check audits, template documents & representation (including unfair dismissal) • TRAINING: and recognition schemes focused on standardised online safety and compliance training for employees in fuel retail, transport & contractor roles • EVENTS: by the industry, for the industry • NEWS & INFORMATION: updated daily online and delivered to your inbox every Friday EMPLOYMENT ADVOCACY EVENTS TRAINING INFORMATION ACAPMA 1300 160 270 communications@acapma.com.au FROM PAGE 57 quarter of trading with E10 on 31 December 2020, the business delivered a substitution level of 2.6 per cent – above the statewide average of 2.5 per cent but below the legislative mandate of four per cent. To achieve this level of substitution, the business maintained a 2 cents per litre discount of E10 relative to RULP to incentivise consumer purchase of E10 despite the wholesale cost of E10 being higher than RULP during the quarter. Just seven working days later, on 12 January 2021, the business received a threatening letter from the Queensland government asking the owner to ‘show cause’ as to why it should not be required to pay a fine of $134,000 for failing to comply with the mandate. ACAPMA has since responded to the Queensland government on behalf of our member’s business, but the issue highlights the absolute hypocrisy of current government approaches to business assistance in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. On the one hand, state premiers are proudly boasting of the financial and mental health assistance their governments are providing to small-to-medium businesses owners. On the other, they’re issuing threatening letters to business owners who are doing all they reasonably can to both keep their people employed during a sharp economic downturn created by a global pandemic, and comply with a biofuels law that is both unjustified and unreasonable. It’s time to call out the NSW and Queensland biofuels mandates for what they are: a cruel joke that imposes an unreasonable compliance burden on businesses in the pursuit of a patently unrealistic target. ACAPMA intends to pursue changes to these laws publicly and loudly in 2021. About Mark McKenzie Mark holds formal qualifications in engineering (BEng) and business (MBA). He has 30 years of varied experience in private- and public-sector roles, with much of this time spent addressing strategic issues and public policy for the road transport, conventional fuels, and alternative fuels industries. Email him at markm@acapma.com.au or go to acapma.com.au. About ACAPMA First established in 1976, the Australasian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association is the peak industry association representing the interests of most businesses that comprise the downstream petroleum sector in Australia. Membership of the association ranges from large corporations to small family-owned businesses, including fuel wholesalers, fuel distributors, fuel retailers, petroleum contractors and petroleum equipment suppliers. For further information about the nature of petroleum marketing in Australia, contact the ACAPMA Secretariat on 1300 160 270, or email assist@acapma.com.au. 58 CONVENIENCE WORLD JAN/FEB, 2021 ACAPMA 18603 HP .indd 1 27/7/20 3:37 pm