by JOHN MIKKELSEN – WITH a Queensland State election looming and a federal poll in the wind, I’ve already made my mind up like thousands of other electors.
The opinion polls clearly show many won’t be swayed by the billions of cash splash dollars the Labor Government says is to help with cost of living pressures, which they have largely created.
- Labor’s cash splash is like a magician’s sleight of hand.
- Now you see it, now you don’t.
- It’s gone again the next time we fill the car, purchase groceries or pay the power bills.
We know it’s just adding to huge deficits which would be much more massive if it weren’t for lucrative royalties and taxes on the much-maligned mining industry responsible for the bulk of government income streams.
The cash splash is like a magician’s sleight of hand – now you see it, now you don’t. It’s ultimately our money, robbing Peter to pay Paul (or Gina to pay Jim), before it’s gone again the next time we fill the car, purchase groceries or pay the quarterly power bills.
Three hundred dollar grants for everyone – including billionaires – doesn’t come close to offsetting rising costs since Anthony Albanese became prime minister.
Apparently, that was just “aspirational”, but my main gripe at this stage is with Queensland Premier Steven “Giggles” Miles.
His generous 50 cent public Translink fares have raised the ire of regional residents who rightly think they are subsidising their Southeast Queensland cousins.
We recently made a short trip to drop our son and daughter-in-law at the nearest railway station where they paid a 50 cent Go Card fare to Brisbane en route to the International Airport.
Had I known, I could have paid $300 for a limousine to take them direct to the airport, thrown in a bottle of bubbly, and still saved money.
How so? Well I was pinged by the police for the crime of driving a few kilometres as hour over the unposted limit of 50. I wasn’t driving a stolen car, high on drugs or driving recklessly. Though, I’m sure others were.
So I sent the following email to the Honourable Mr Miles:
NOTE TO PREMIER
“Dear Premier, I am writing to you to inform you of an example of what I regard as pure revenue raising by your Queensland Police, which seems completely at odds with the news of serious crime we are confronted with daily, and which will no doubt be a major issue in the coming State elections, along with escalating cost of living pressures.
“We continually see and hear of major youth crime, often by repeat offenders, domestic violence, arson, car thefts and road incidents involving drivers often high on drugs driving at high speeds, usually in stolen cars. This must obviously place a strain on limited police resources.
“That is why I was very surprised to receive a traffic infringement notice in the mail yesterday with a fine of $322 “for exceeding the speed limit by less than 11km/hr”. My alleged speed was 58km/hr in a 50km/hr zone, and this occurred at 13.08pm, not on a short narrow street or cul-de-sac, but a wide interconnecting thoroughfare several kilometres long. I entered it via a side street and assumed the speed limit would be 60km/hr. I even saw the police SUV off the side of the road, looked at my speedo and thought I was well within the limit. There was hardly any other traffic at that time and I would assert that I certainly was not driving dangerously or putting anyone else at risk.
“With the serious crime issues mentioned above, it’s incredible that police resources could be diverted to sitting hours – possibly all day – on a suburban street with probably little or no major accident history in the hope of catching normally law-abiding motorists a few kilometres over the limit. My own personal driving record dating back more than 60 years involves very few infringements and nothing more serious than the incident outlined here.
“I would not be alone in noting that speed camera vehicles are often practically obscured by trees, on downhill slopes and placed near where speed limits change up or down, which does nothing to slow motorists down, rather than catch them out and boost State coffers. By all means catch serious offenders and dangerous drivers, but not those straying over the limit by a few km/hr who would be driving more dangerously if their eyes were continually diverted to their speedometer.
“A good policy would involve you and Police Minister Mark Ryan instructing police to concentrate on major crime including major road infringements…”
REPLY
I haven’t received a reply but if I ever do it will probably be along the lines that speed kills, every kilometre over the limit is a potential killer, I was putting the lives of my passenger(s) at risk…
Yeah right, just keep the cost of living relief coming and maybe invest in some actual speed limit signs on major suburban roads, mate!
I could count the speeding fines since I received my first licence at age 17 on one hand, and I’ve owned plenty of fast cars. But one incident in particular was almost worth it for the laughs it has raised over the years.
I’ll share an excerpt from my memoir, Don’t Call Me Nev.
My boys and I had watched in awe and admiration as Allan Moffat and Colin Bond crossed the line for a 1-2 finish at Mt Panorama in 1977.
Moffat’s Falcon had no brakes at that stage but his lead was big enough for Bond to pull alongside, slow down and allow his boss to claim victory!
The next year, Ford brought out a limited edition Allan Moffat Special to appeal to his legion of Rev Head fans. These came equipped with goodies including four-wheel disc brakes, slick four speed gearbox, limited slip diff and a smooth but powerful 302 cubic inch V8 under the sleek hood with twin nostril air vents.
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Yes please, count me in. I was an editor now and could stretch the budget to buy the red and black beast. What a great drive!
But one night on a return trip from our hometown, Bundaberg, I knew I was a goner when a cop wearing reflective clothing and armed with a radar gun bounded out onto the road at the bottom of a long slope on the Bruce Highway north of Gin Gin and started waving me down.
“Oh sh#t, he’s got me!” I blurted out.
Cathy, half asleep in the comfortable bucket seat alongside me, replied: “What do you mean ‘Got you’? You can easily miss him…”
What the heck was my lovely, law abiding wife suggesting now? Outrun the law???
“No I can’t, he’s got me”.
My foot is on the brake and we are slowing as she again replies, “That big white kangaroo on the road ahead. Of course you can miss him!”
Uh-oh, should have gone to Spec Savers, Cathy!
I could hardly stop laughing before I pulled over and wound down the window as the cop approached. But I couldn’t tell him that my wife had just mistaken him for Skippy’s albino cousin.PC
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Remember this horror which you allegedly don’t hear in mainstream media empires or in the ‘election propaganda’ >
AUSTRALIAN POLITICIANS DON’T EVEN CARE ABOUT BABIES – THEY ARE DISCARDED AND LEFT TO CRY THEMSELVES TO DEATH !– THE LACK OF ANY HUMANNESS FROM AUSTRALIAN POLITICIANS – absolutely repulsive / repugnant people / cold blooded people !
As UNITED AUSTRALIA PARTY Senator Ralph Babet spoke to his urgency motion, the Greens’ Sarah Hanson-Young made vomiting-gestures behind him for the cameras
(She allegedly looks like she’s in a scene from The Exorcist).
When Black Caviar’s foal – a colt sired by Snitzel – passed away this week, there was a virtual day of mourning.
He received “around-the-clock, world-class veterinary care, but unfortunately could not be saved”, and headlines lamented devastation, with even ABC reporting that “late Black Caviar champion racehorse’s final foal has died”.
As the world mourned the loss of a baby horse, a parliamentary inquiry in Queensland, sparked by Katter Australia Party MP Robbie Katter, was hearing gut-wrenching testimonies from frontline midwives like Louise Adsett. They revealed the tragic story of a baby boy, fighting for his life for five agonising hours devoid of any care, let alone that given to a colt.
A motion in the Senate, which sought to “recognise that at least one baby is born alive every seven days following a failed abortion and left to die and that Australia’s health care system is enabling these inhumane deaths, and for the Senate to condemn this practice, noting that babies born alive as a result of a failed abortion deserve care,” went strategically unrecognised in most media, save for Weekend Telegraph columnist Peta Credlin on Sky.
This was not a debate about women’s right to abortion but only pertained to what to do when an aborted baby is born alive.
Queensland MP Robbie Katter has introduced a bill to ensure the rights of babies born alive in his state. It’s a crucial step, which means the duty of a registered health practitioner to provide medical care and treatment to a person born as a result of termination would be no different from their duty to anybody else.
I’ll help with some transparency, a link to how they voted. You’ll find every so-called “caring”, “ethical” party, including Teal, Labor, the Greens and the four soft-moderate Liberal faction Senators, voted against pain relief for a baby dying in a dish.
https://crazzfiles.com/campion-inhumane-deaths-aborted-babies-born-alive-are-being-left-to-die/