{"id":6417,"date":"2022-07-21T18:36:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/documents-reveal-extent-of-ubers-lobbying-of-daniel-andrews-government-to-legalise-its-operation\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T18:36:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:36:12","slug":"documents-reveal-extent-of-ubers-lobbying-of-daniel-andrews-government-to-legalise-its-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/documents-reveal-extent-of-ubers-lobbying-of-daniel-andrews-government-to-legalise-its-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Documents reveal extent of Uber\u2019s lobbying of Daniel Andrews\u2019 government to legalise its operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leak shows how Uber sought to influence key players in Labor government and launched an \u2018aggressive\u2019 campaign against taxi industry<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/10\/what-are-the-uber-files-guide\">What are the Uber files?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/10\/uber-files-leak-reveals-global-lobbying-campaign\">Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/11\/uber-files-whistleblower-lobbyist-mark-macgann\">The whistleblower: I\u2019m exposing a system that sold people a lie<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free news app<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning email briefing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Uber saw the victory of Labor\u2019s Daniel Andrews in the 2014 Victorian state election as an opportunity to finally get its lucrative Melbourne operations legalised, documents obtained by Guardian Australia reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Uber set up shop in Australia in 2012 without the required permits then launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/15\/the-uber-files-australia-launched-operated-illegally-document-leak\">an aggressive campaign to change state laws<\/a> to legalise its operations across the country. It is a tactic the company has used repeatedly in markets around the world: launch first, establish a loyal customer base, and then lobby for laws to be changed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jul\/22\/documents-reveal-extent-of-ubers-lobbying-of-daniel-andrews-government-to-legalise-its-operation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fc795edd3fe92c0197d2cdb6636f2144ce34dbd4\/90_21_5147_3088\/master\/5147.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a9725016b3831dc30fa56dd30f250dee\" title=\"Documents reveal extent of Uber\u2019s lobbying of Daniel Andrews\u2019 government to legalise its operation\" \/>Leak shows how Uber sought to influence key players in Labor government and launched an \u2018aggressive\u2019 campaign against taxi industry<\/p>\n<p>What are the Uber files?<br \/>\nUber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals<br \/>\nThe whistleblower: I\u2019m exposing a system that sold people a lie<br \/>\nGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>Uber saw the victory of Labor\u2019s Daniel Andrews in the 2014 Victorian state election as an opportunity to finally get its lucrative Melbourne operations legalised, documents obtained by Guardian Australia reveal.<br \/>\nUber set up shop in Australia in 2012 without the required permits then launched an aggressive campaign to change state laws to legalise its operations across the country. It is a tactic the company has used repeatedly in markets around the world: launch first, establish a loyal customer base, and then lobby for laws to be changed. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leak shows how Uber sought to influence key players in Labor government and launched an \u2018aggressive\u2019 campaign against taxi industry What are the Uber files? Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals The whistleblower: I\u2019m exposing a system that sold people a lie Get our free news app, morning email briefing &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/documents-reveal-extent-of-ubers-lobbying-of-daniel-andrews-government-to-legalise-its-operation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Documents reveal extent of Uber\u2019s lobbying of Daniel Andrews\u2019 government to legalise its operation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}