Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:03
I often find myself wondering this. Australia has total
population about the same as some large cities in other countries, yet we manage to have 8 (if I've counted correctly) state/territory governments, a federal government plus regional councils. The result is inefficiency and huge cost! Not only that, but the differing rules cause problems on a day to day basis. Road rules change at a
river crossing, so what is legal on one side is illegal on the other. The rural press published articles about this a while back, because farmers and contract harvesters had machines that could be driven legally in one state but were "busted" when driving 500m down the road to a paddock in the next state.
In this particular case we (the taxpayers) seem to have have paid for a group of experts to come up with a "national standard", and now we are paying for 8 more groups of experts to remove the commonality and recreate it as 8 differing versions, thus removing the very purpose for which it was designed!
Still, we've got to keep all those "public servant" jobs going, haven't we?!!
To extend your point, if a passenger vehicle travels to another state, does it have to comply with that states legislation? I am told that agricultural vehicles have to comply with the state they are actually in (as mentioned above), but would it be legal to drive a QLD registered vehicle with +50mm tyres (legal in QLD) through NSW where they are illegal?
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