Take a look at what has been happening in the automotive industry, and keep up to date with all the latest news and events.

Posted on 28/06/2023

Get your engines ready - it's competition time again! Win a trip for 2 to the Repco Bathurst 1000


This year, the event celebrates its 60th anniversary. As per usual, it is expected to host some of the biggest names in Australian and international motorsport, which attracts thousands of fans and competitors from all over the world.


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Posted on 28/06/2023

Recognising excellence in the automotive industry: Finalists announced for the MTA WA’s 2023 Awards


Delivered in partnership with Platinum Sponsor, Capricorn Society, the 2023 Capricorn MTA WA Automotive Awards has reached an exciting milestone as the Finalists have been announced.


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Posted on 22/06/2023

Government embraces MTA WA’s crime fighting idea…


Any suggestion that the MTA WA’s recommendations against odometer fraud cannot be implemented in WA because of privacy issues can be dispelled - NSW has successfully delivered it.


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Posted on 22/06/2023

Mr. Hughes and Mr. Kerr honoured with lifetime acheivement award


Western Australian icons and MTA WA members John Hughes and Doug Kerr honoured at the 2023 AADA Convention and Expo’s Chairman’s dinner


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Posted on 29/05/2023

GTO apprentice Jacob Zurzolo representing Western Australia


Congratulations to our GTO apprentice Jacob Zurzulo – who recently represented Western Australia at the Brisbane Truck Show!


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Posted on 24/05/2023

ACCC issues first infringement notices for breach of button battery standards


Members are reminded of their obligations under new Button/Coin Battery standards after two Australian retailers have paid almost a quarter of a million dollars in penalties for non-compliance.


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Posted on 19/05/2023

Thanks to our members who offered assistance to the Kimberley


On behalf of everyone at the MTA WA, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to all the members who have so generously donated goods in response to the devastating floods in Fitzroy Crossing.


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Posted on 16/05/2023

New licensing centre set in Butler to replace Joondalup


Transport Minister Hon Rita Saffioti has announced that a new, bigger Department of Transport Driver and Vehicles Services (DVS) centre will open in Butler on 22 May 2023


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Posted on 01/05/2023

DoT reneges on GCM commitment


Regrettably, [DoT] has since reneged on their commitment to immediately fix a process that a Parliamentary Committee found to be, “haphazard, arbitrary and is perceived by applicants to be capricious and lacking in procedural fairness.”


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Posted on 01/05/2023

Miles between departments on odometer tampering


The MTA considered the meeting worthy, if for no other reason but the opportunity for industry to share its expert knowledge of the subject with some government officers from the two agencies. It is somewhat disappointing that the unavailability of


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