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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Ian Kirkwood

Taxi plate owners slam compensation deal struck between Perrottet government and NSW Taxi Council

Taxi owner-driver 'Dave' at Marketown yesterday. He and other plate holders say that whatever the compensation package eventually pays them, the arrival of Uber has destroyed their industry. Picture by Jonathan Carroll

HUNTER taxi plate owners are angry at the compensation package unveiled this week by the NSW government, saying it comes nowhere near meeting the losses they've incurred since Uber and the other ride-share firms upended the taxi industry.

The industry body, the NSW Taxi Council, accepted a revamped $760-million offer this week that the government said would "fully deregulate the ('point-to-point' transport) industry and benefit customers in the long term".

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