Well, it's time people. In 1972 Gough Whitlam launched his "It's Time" campaign, and now I am doing the same.

It's time to basically wage war on those people who put together the sham report for the government just so the government could introduce new laws not to save lives but to raise money, pure and simple.

People, I urge you to let these clowns know that you are pissed off at them, that they did not do their research, and that they are a disgrace. Call them, email them, write letters, maybe do something extreme, but do something.

Let's start with the idiots who did the Taskforce Report, aka the TaskFARCE.

Now, the list below is eight people who I assume wrote the report. As at the 30th June, 2006 there were 11 members of the Road Safety Council of the NT. I am assuming that the three that were not involved are those that were in the outback. A few I know for a fact were on the Taskfarce committee. Those that were definitely on the committee have the word definite next to their name

The list is:

Peter Poole - highly likely

Chris Bigg  - definite.Lives in Parap somewhere

Assistant Commissioner Mark Payne - highly likely

Doug Webb - definite. TIO lackie dwebb@tiofi.com.au 

Postal Address
GPO Box 770, Darwin, NT, 0801 Telephone 1300 301 833

Justin Larkin - highly likely

Dr Steven Sko - highly likely

Randall Gould - highly likely

Senior Sgt Michael Potts - highly likely

Here's a link to the Road Safety Committee's 2005-2006 Annual Report, all the members are on page 7:

http://www.nt.gov.au/transport/safety/road/publications/annualreports/documents/annreport0506.pdf

Ok, now the idiot ministers repsonsible

Delia Lawrie

Parliament Contact:                                          
Parliament House
Darwin NT 0801
Tel:  08 8901 4047
Fax:  08 8901 4169
Email:  delia.lawrie@nt.gov.au

Postal Address:
GPO Box 3146
Darwin NT 0801

Electorate Office:
Shop 27, Karama Shopping Plaza
Karama, NT, 0812
Tel:  (08) 8927 7366
Fax:  (08) 8945 2090

Clare Martin - the Chief Minister  at the time and driving force in this whole fiasco

Here's a bonus for you all, Clare's home address which I got from the NT Electoral Commission roll

Clare Majella Martin, 8 The Narrows Rd, The Narrows NT. Sorry, haven't got the postcode.

Parliament House:
Parliament House
Darwin NT 0800
Tel:  (08) 8901 4000
Fax:  (08) 8901 4099

Postal Address:
GPO Box 3146
Darwin, NT, 0801

Electorate Office:
Parap Place
Parap, NT, 0804
Tel:  (08) 8981 4016
Fax:  (08) 8941 2661
Email:  electorate.fanniebay@nt.gov.au

Postal Address:
PO Box 11
Parap, NT, 0804

But wait, there's more to this fiasco.

Harold Scruby of the almighty (it is often siad that the PCA is just Harold and a fax machine) Pedestrian Council of Australia had a hand in this. He and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons wrote a disgraceful letter to Clare martin and the NT govt telling them to fix the road toll or else. And the cause of the road toll according to Harold, the open highways. This idiot of a man and his cohorts from the RACS obviously did not read the report, they simply drew the conclusion that the NT's high per capita road toll was due to the open road, which is they had of bothered to read the report they would have found that this is not true.

Below is a link to Harold's disgraceful letter, and I am disgusted that a highly intelligent person such as a surgeon co-signed it with him:

http://www.walk.com.au/pedestriancouncil/Page.asp?PageID=1908

Harold Scruby

Harold's home address is

4 Bickell Rd, Mosman NSW 2088

M 0418 110011

PCA's details Suite 30, 19A Young St, Neutral Bay NSW 2089

or PO Box 500, Neutral Bay NSW 2089

Another phone number is 02 9968 4555

Telephone: (02) 9968 4544 Facsimile: (02) 9968 4566 Email: walking@walk.com.au

Dr Rob Atkinson is the surgeon who amazingly co-signed the disgraceful letter with Harold Scruby

Contact:  Rob Atkinson        (0419) 772-474

http://au.news.yahoo.com/071228/2/15dub.html

NT speed limits 'should be scrapped'

The Northern Territory government is being called on to scrap open road speed limits it adopted at the start of this year, after recording the worst road toll in a decade.

Despite introducing a 130km/h limit for the region's four main highways - the Stuart, Arnhem, Barkly and Victoria - and establishing a demerit point system, road fatalities in 2007 have climbed to climbed to 57.

The toll is up from 44 in the same period last year and 35 in 2004.

A damning report released last year found NT roads had a death rate three times higher than the rest of Australia on a per capita basis, with one person dying and nine seriously injured every week.

The findings prompted the government to put an end to a tradition whereby NT drivers were among the few left in the world - and the only ones in Australia - who could freely decide their speed on the open roads.

But the opposition Country Liberal Party (CLP) said it was time for new NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson to reverse the controversial changes.

"Now the evidence is in," CLP transport spokeswoman Fay Miller said in a statement.

"(Mr) Henderson has the option of correcting a mistake of his predecessor and get rid of the open road speed limit."

Ms Miller said data suggested that drink drivers and people failing to wear seat belts were the main reason for road fatalities - and not speed.

"The opposition was highly sceptical that Territory Labor's attack on our way of life would have a positive impact on the road toll," she said.

"It is a great shame that one of the qualities that made the Territory unique has been sacrificed without an obvious benefit.

"Making such a far-reaching change to the character of the Territory on a hunch was reckless policy making."

Ms Miller said demerit points - introduced in most Australian states in 1969 - would also prove to be equally useless in curbing the road toll.

Momentun is slowly building!!!  Go Faye!!!!