Residents of the Far North’s dairy farming district of Malanda are seething over Labor Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey’s high-tech roadside cameras which have been robbing motorists blind of thousands of dollars.
Local member of parliament Shane Knuth said 360 people had contacted his office, with close to 600 fines totalling $300,000 over a few weeks in October.
“Laws are in place to change behaviour but how on earth is placing a camera on a road which is a low crash area justified?” Mr Knuth said.
“How is giving an emergency nurse seven fines, or a pensioner visiting his wife in the nearby aged care facility a way to change people’s behaviour if they are not notified until a month after the alleged offence?
“This is purely about revenue raising. I have serious concerns about not only the criteria used to determine where these devices are placed, but also the process in place to test these devices everyday they are at these locations.”
Katters Australian Party’s wily, tenacious Member for Hill asked the Main Roads Minister in parliament several weeks ago to provide him with radar device test results before the cameras were put in place.
He is still waiting for an answer.
Queensland Labor expects to generate $500m from traffic fines this year more than doubling last year’s revenue.
The National Measurement Act 1960 could provide a remedy for those hapless motorists who have been stung with potentially unlawful traffic fines.
Motorists will find that the radar or laser instruments used to calculate their speed will not have been calibrated and certified by the Chief Metrologist for accuracy, each time they are deployed. Nor will the radar operator have a current certificate of calibration issued by the Chief Metrologist or his agent.
A Queensland-issued certificate is not recognised by the federal act, unless the Chief Metrologist has endorsed it.
The recently amended act is now careful to state the measuring instrument must be used for trade. It should be noted the Main Roads Department is a corporation which has an ABN number, https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=39407690291 which qualifies it for trading with the public to generate income.
Naturally members of the public may not consent to trading with MRD which is another disqualifier for a traffic fine.
Readers can refer to:
National Measurement Act https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2021C00505
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They need to form a ninja group like in the UK. After dark in mask, take down and destroy.
An old trick we used on identified surveillance vehicles was to cover them with cheap car cover . Four of you, one a side on the cover run to the vehicle and slip it on. Cameras cannot see through the car cover. Remember, practice is needed to stop laughing. Wear animal or clown suits disguise – have fun. .. Harry P
ron
So what are we waiting for to fix the mess we are in?
Oh yeah, the white hats (all in hiding?) and any white knight that is available to fight for our freedom.
Oh, hang on ron, to be fair: after killing several hundred million or even a couple of billion more stupid sheep with his Operation Warp Speed, Kill Gates patented ‘safe and effective’ COVID vaccine: Father Trump has to find all the white hats, or, if he can’t find any, just make some clones of them from a photograph of one; before he can even think about rescuing the compliant and spineless morons from their own stupidity. by convincing them they need more OWS vaccine boosters, first.
Extortion operation. $300k taken out of the Malanda economy and transferred back to Brisbane. If every one of these fines was taken to the local magistrate’s court they might think differently.
The police, main roads and transport, courts, state government, are privately run corporations who simply put in place shonky legislation, regulations, roles, codes, etc. What they put in place is for the benefit of their corporations, not for us.
Registering your vehicle (contracting with corporations) essentially gives the private corporations control over the vehicle. That is why they can impound and destroy the vehicle, we have hundreds of contracts with the corporations and most people do not know it.
We vote to have the corporations represent us (we contract with them) do we deserve what they do to us?
I am sure we do, we are stupid, brainwashed, indoctrinated sheeple.
We have become the type of sheep who do not need a dog to round us up into a compliant mob, we do that ourselves.
If it had not already become so sad, I would laugh at our stupidity, cowardice, and apathy.
So what are we waiting for to fix the mess we are in?
Oh yeah, the white hats (all in hiding?) and any white knight that is available to fight for our freedom.
Still waiting.
This is their idea of revenue raising rather then doing it through projects implemented for growth and bringing the state back from the pit of bankruptcy they have driven it to by their ridiculous policies and perks – and how much did all this Big Brother cost anyway
Time to start doing what UK people are doing to the ULEZ cameras. Block them. Put up signs warning people about them. Cut down trees r spray paint cameras. Do whatever you can to interfere with their operations.