Transcript Peak Oil, Petrol Prices and Climate Change Conference.

Peak Oil, Petrol Prices and
Climate Change Conference.
Health and community sector
A view from St Vincent de Paul
Gavin Dufty manager policy and research
Peak oil, climate change and impact on the health and community
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Transport Costs per week Victoria
200.00
150.00
141.29
150.46
138.53
Rural (a)
Total
122.58
100.00
50.00
Major Urban Other Urban
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Weekly household Transport costs Australia
170.00
160.00
150.00
140.00
130.00
120.00
160.44
136.61
139.25
136.01
Major Urban Other Urban
Rural (a)
Total
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Additional cost of transport faced by those
in the rural areas of the state. Who on
average pay an additional $12 per week,
or $624 per annum over those in the
urban areas.
This cost differential is even greater when
comparing the impact for the national
perspective. With those in the rural areas
paying on average an additional $1500
per annum in transport costs.
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Average change in petrol price
148
MELBOURNE METRO
Average
138
SWAN HILL Average
WONTHAGGI Average
118
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ARARAT Average
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As these household cost structures are
based on 2003-2004 ABS numbers as the
cost of petrol has increased by
approximately 30cents per liter this would
result in the estimates of the cost
pressures of transport on households
rising as much as 30% on the 2003-2004
estimates.
Adding an additional $200 to $500 per
annum.
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Demand for emergency transport relief across
Victoria – impact on the most vulnerable.
Particularly high costs in non metro
For those we assist on 33 local regions we have the top
7 transport assistance are
South Gippsland over 30k
Goulburn valley over 21K
Wangarratta over 17K
Latrobe valley over 15k
Bendigo over 9K
Glenelg over 7K
Wimmera over 7K
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Impacts on volunteers - about 4,000 delivering
emergency assistance
The cost of transport has had an impact on our volunteers
as travel longer distances more cost initially to volunteer
and impacts on those they assist as they can provide less
support.
Volunteer retention – because of the additional costs
volunteers can not afford to deliver support so leave.
Limits frequency of assistance to households.
Puts financial pressure on Volunteers at risk of becoming
clients (cash flow issues if claim from us but often they
don’t)
And huge cost if claimed back to the society (and not all
do claim back) and reduces funds available for assistance.
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Impact on the organization - a case study
we have 95 Op shops across Victoria majority
volunteer managed (55) this brings an additional 4000
volunteers to assist these operations.
Required to provide 5 day Occ health and safety
training delivered in Melbourne (sector specific so cant
do locally) cost to get to training (transport alone) 70
cents a Kilometer
Mildura $3000
Horsham $2000
Lakes Entrance $2000
Colac $600 so on !!
Do this minimum bi annually (a Volunteer mangers
only have 2 year terms) or as managers change