This story appeared in the NT News today. It proves beyond doubt that even though there is no "official" quota, the police are under enormous pressure to issue more traffic infringement notices, or TIN's as they call them.
Click on the link below to read the story, and please feel free to comment:
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/07/27/4812_ntnews.html
Good comment about former ALP voter, me as well. I put faith in this mob to deliver sound reasoning and considered policy.
Remember the old days when a spade was called a spade, I must be some deluded prick living in some idealistic past. Gone are the days of truth and honesty on both sides of politics.
We cant expect this government to be voted out unless people actually care, I would like to be proved wrong but I dont see that people actually care.
Please prove me wrong.
If he has 'received mail', then THAT is where the problem is.
If true, then people need to know it and resove to vote the revenue raisers out.
A certain Monash road safety campaigner, not the one mentioned here in forum, is concerned that people are accpeting the speed cameras as mere revenue raisers.
He is right, and if that concerns him (Prof. I. Johnston), then so be it. The road user IS taxable income, and that is all we are to most government agencies from AG's down to Auditors and Treasury. Safety?? Rubbish.
NT CLP must make media of this, ensure they do so.