Queensland the socialist surveillance state
Motorists travelling the Bruce Highway between Brisbane and Cairns are the most photographed and heavily fined in Queensland, last year coughing up an estimated $500,000 a day for the Brisbane socialists.
Roadside cameras trying to catch speeding vehicles in some stretches of highway range from only hundreds of metres apart to a camera found around every 10 klms. Some cover both lanes, others only one lane. That amounts to potentially many hundreds of expensive cameras in fixed or movable positions along the disgraceful A1 route linking the Far North to Brisbane.
Much of this narrow, major highway is in appalling condition, having a rough surface and being unsuitable for any high speed driving. Yet the MRD generated more than $170 million last year from hapless motorists or truck drivers who had been caught behind slow moving caravans or heavy vehicles for tens of kilometres along this busy route.
When they pass a slow vehicle in a 100 klm zone a purposely positioned speed camera picks up the overtaking car that might have had to reach up to 120 klm per hour in order to pass safely on the Labor goat track.
Queensland Labor is making a welter out of poor roads with hundreds of thousands of traffic infringements lining Treasury coffers. The Bruce Highway is the state’s major truck route and drivers are mercilessly photographed by these revenue raisers ultimately resulting in a loss of licence and income for struggling operators.
Qld Labor expects the Camera Detected Offence Program will bring in more than $500 million this financial year.
On July 1 last year, the fine for not wearing a seatbelt increased from $413 to $1,078, while the penalty for speeding between 31 kilometres per hour and 40kph over the limit climbed from $643 to $1,078.
The fine for running a red light increased from $413 to $575.
The fine for drivers nabbed travelling more than 40kph over the speed limit increased from $1,286 to $1,653.
Some high resolution devices are positioned higher than others peering into truck cabins to capture mobile phone use or if seatbelts are being worn.
Most of the cameras operate in real time immediately sending your personal image to a vast data bank held in Roma Street police headquarters in Brisbane and others are received by an extensive array of Main Roads Department computers at their Mt Gravatt facility on Brisbane’s southside.
The latest model cameras are carefully mounted on high poles protected by at least 100 metres of steel barricade to prevent irate motorists from mowing them down. Some are positioned on bridges.
How much longer will hapless motorists allow Queensland Labor to punish them with excessive fines which amount to unlawful taxes that do not prevent road accidents.
Last year after a prolonged spate of unexplained single vehicle accidents and other serious collisions involving more than one vehicle, Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey, who is unable to drive a car and does not hold a driver’s licence, admitted there could be a connection between Covid mRNA vaccination and these accidents.
Reports from around the world suggest serious medical episodes caused by mRNA vaxx had caused many accidents when drivers took a fit, passed out or had a heart attack from myocarditis, a common reaction to spike proteins found in the toxic concoction. Judging by comments from truck drivers at truck stops it won’t be long before these cameras are either damaged or will disappear. We share their anger.
While there are legitimate reasons for speed restrictions in urban residential and industrial areas, speeds on our major city to city highways are primarily limited by our road design which is constrained by our penny pinching governments, politicians and bureaucrats. Even with the vast distances connecting population there is no intent to design and deliver safe, divided, high speed inter-connectors capable of coping with high volumes of freight and passenger traffic.
Additionally they continue the same general road construction methods regardless of the geological and hydrology of the route even when transiting flood plains and often no sooner is a new section built, it fails and is forever in need of significant maintenance .
The Bruce Highway continues to be an ongoing national disgrace of a endless, disjointed patchwork of maintenance, upgrades and new builds constrained buy funding limitations by both the state and federal governments. The Commonwealth needs grant Major Project Status to the Bruce Highway and guaranty the funding for an all weather divided dual north south carriageway from Gympie to Cairns!
As an experience Licensed Motor Mechanic I have stated for many years Government is the most dishonest back biting part of our modern insane society. Motor cars and trucks are all sold with the capability of exceeding maximum speed limits and the dishonest, despicable government has the Police, who are prostituted to do their will, make massive monetary value from this intended FRAUD. If the maximum speed is 110 klm per hour why are motor vehicles made and sold with the ability to fundamentally act illegally.
templar 1066 wrote ” Despite this laudable policy of keeping everyone safe…”
In the Transport Operations (Road Use Management—Road Rules) Regulation 2009 is only the safety of PERSONS mentioned, not men and women. Spot the difference!
It sounds as though roads in rural Queensland have not improved much since Petersen’s days when my parents travelled through that state in the 1990’s. Narrow winding roads I was told. Dangerous to overtake.
Weather cams, traffic surveillance cams are also Owl Cams. It seems they like to fly right up to them and stick their eye right into the lens. Owl is watching the watchers. Like this one in Finland. The Finn who watching from the other end got an eyeful of owl.
Clissa Townsend
Since that section was begun a few years ago, traffic flow has doubled so all that will happen is the new part will get the snarl moving for a while, but within a year it will be chaos again.
Yes, you could be forgiven for thinking so.
However, none of this stuff makes any sense given the 17 goals of the 2030 Sustainability Agenda.
https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda
Pay particular attention to SDG 13
If this is any yardstick: there won’t be any ‘traffic snarls’ for much longer – most roads will be UN approved ‘cycle tracks’ (which currently lie unused) and only contribute more to frustrate, even infuriate city motorists.
They ultimately want to rid the world and us of all vehicles powered by that evil CO2 emitting fossil fuel and what few vehicles will be left will be 100% ‘electric powered’ and their massive and dangerous battery packs charged by electricity, supposedly electric power generated by windmills and solar panels… 🤦♂️
So, either they know their ‘clean green’ preindustrial era Gulags are unviable – a mere pipedream, or, they’re making all these improvements to the highways and infrastructure as a kind of smoke screen to divert our attention away from their ultimate plan – hoping we’ll think everything’s ‘normal’ and EV’s, windmills solar panels and their clean green world is merely a pipedream that will never come to fruition.
While behind the smokescreen: they’re inventing more reasons and implementing technologies that will ultimately impoverish and enslave us all.
IOW: they hope we’ll continue believing they’re incompetent, scientifically illiterate luddites, who have no idea what they’re doing and are making a big mistake…
They’re NOT. Far from it in fact.
They know exactly what they’re doing.
They want to destroy all industry and our whole energy dependent societies and way of life by depriving it all of essential fossil-fuel or nuclear derived energy and they’re progressing this wicked, anti-humanity agenda at a frightening pace. Particularly in Australia.
templar1066 said – “A pernicious policy enforced by the state and the police.”
Fake state. They’re a foreign-owned corporate entity. Good luck with your voting – you’re not even a shareholder, just a clueless low-level EMPLOYEE subject to their corporate rules by your IMPLICIT CONSENT.
Fake police. They’re hired mercenaries employed by a foreign owned corporate entity which has its own registered ABN and TRADES under the name of the “Queensland Police Service”.
They’re in the TRADING game because they’re a BUSINESS, folks, NOT a statutory authority. They have NO “authority” outside their corporate context.
WHo has actually CONTRACTED with this corporate entity to legitimise their issuance of unsolicited “fines” to ANYONE?
If Coles or Woolworths set up speed cameras on the main highway and sent out “fines” to hapless drivers, would you pay them?
Maybe they’d send the Coles Security Guard around to kick your door in and drag you off to the Coles Detention Facility until you coughed up the cash, or maybe dragged you through the Coles Court of Petty Sessions presided over by the Coles District Magistrate.
Seriously, folks – how did we get here?
Looks to me like we need a Queensland chapter of the legendary Blade Runners.
If this is the case then Cairns News should be publishing some articles showing people how to beat these unlawful fines.
People might start with my work, published by Cairns News, and applicable to all corporatised police forces nationwide:
https://cairnsnews.org/2021/08/27/victoria-police-now-independent-of-parliament-says-premier-andrews/
I will send the Editor a basic document about lawful fines, however the gist of it is this:
A fine can only be imposed in a Court of competent jurisdiction, by a Judge or Magistrate,
Such fine is intended-only-as compensation for injury to a (natural) person or their property (and not as a means to make a quick buck).
I agree with the above comment entirely.
But I am writing about another aspect.
It doesn’t matter which side is in power, they will continue to reap the ‘rewards’ of a multitude of cameras on the highway.
No one is going to say “oh, we don’t need all that revenue”, and turn half the cameras off.
No, they will hold their hands out with glee and actually beg for even more money for the driving poor. What a bonanza it is to have all that wonderful revenue drop into their laps. They can have amazing corporate lunches til the cows come home.
Because they certainly are NOT spending the windfall on fixing road. Even the new section about to open north of Gympie won’t alleviate the traffic snarls for very long.
Since that section was begun a few years ago, traffic flow has doubled so all that will happen is the new part will get the snarl moving for a while, but within a year it will be chaos again.
And there seems no earnest effort to get on with more extentions to this new section of highway.
Unfortunately, all excessive fines will be justified on the grounds of road safety. Despite this laudable policy of keeping everyone safe, it is somewhat hypocritical of the police to fine drivers who exceed the speed limit when attempting to pass a slower vehicle in a 100 km zone. If the slow vehicle is traveling at 90 kms an hour, to pass at no greater a speed than the legal limit of 100 kms an hour, requires the passing vehicle to legally restrict its passing speed to 10 kms an hour or less. At that speed, it would take several hundred meters before the passing vehicle could safely return to the left land. Clearly, a dangerous situation especially on a busy highway. A pernicious policy enforced by the state and the police.