Anyone catch Mark Webbers comments the other day branding Australia a nanny state? Link is below, IMO he is spot on. Everything is regulated these days, not just road rules and speed limits but if you smoke you get taxed, if you drink you get taxed. If someone loses their house playing pokies suddenly it’s the casinos fault rather than the person who chose to do so. If someone gets wasted at a pub and starts a fight it’s the pubs fault and we must make laws to prevent this. Last I heard they were trying to shut down 24/7 bottle shops in Melbourne and were blaming them for violence.
Then there was the blatant revenue raising and offensive fines for petty road rules. The other day I got pulled over and fined for doing 7km over the speed limit. I then got a second fine for driving with both my headlights and fog lights on at the same time? Apparently that is now illegal. What kind of message does that send to a motorist when the police are doing that? Mark is right Australia is becoming a nanny state, all I ever hear is speed kills and we need to ban this and that. How about lets educate people rather than just replaying tac adds which anyone with half a brain would know only really apply to those tools doing excessive speed. Not the person driving 10k over because they are busy trying to drive safe rather than look at their speedo every two seconds.
Im with mark on this, but it seems a lot of people are too stupid to understand what hes getting at. What do we all think?
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/aust...ver-nanny-state-road-rules-20100328-r4qj.html
Then there was the blatant revenue raising and offensive fines for petty road rules. The other day I got pulled over and fined for doing 7km over the speed limit. I then got a second fine for driving with both my headlights and fog lights on at the same time? Apparently that is now illegal. What kind of message does that send to a motorist when the police are doing that? Mark is right Australia is becoming a nanny state, all I ever hear is speed kills and we need to ban this and that. How about lets educate people rather than just replaying tac adds which anyone with half a brain would know only really apply to those tools doing excessive speed. Not the person driving 10k over because they are busy trying to drive safe rather than look at their speedo every two seconds.
Im with mark on this, but it seems a lot of people are too stupid to understand what hes getting at. What do we all think?
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/aust...ver-nanny-state-road-rules-20100328-r4qj.html