How hard would it be to have a Austrlian registration and licence

I have read with a great deal of interest your comments on registration through the various states.
Planning to send a vehicle from NZ across to OZ next year for a 11 month lap involving all states. If you guys have problems, what am I letting myself in fore, a problem in each state?? Our current NZ plate is not a standard alpha numeric but a personal plate which we paid extra for.
If anybody has any advice on this dilemma all much appreciated.

Many thanks

Greywiki,
All the issues mentioned here only come into effect when moving from one state to another more or less permanently.

My understanding is that as an overseas tourist driving your own vehicle around Australia you should not have any issues with the various state authorities as long as your vehicle is correctly registered and insured the whole time you are here in this country.

If I'm wrong you can be sure that someone with more knowledge will jump on and correct me.

Disco.

A carnet is similar to a personal passport and contains all the relevant information about the vehicle - make, model, colour, engine capacity, seating capacity, registration number, owner and value.

A carnet is valid for 12 months from the date of issue. There are a number of conditions attached to the use of carnets in Australia. Some of those conditions are:

The vehicle must be exported from Australia prior to or on the expiry date of the carnet.

It is a condition of use of a carnet in Australia that you, do not leave the vehicle that is covered by a carnet in Australia while you are not here. Should you do so, this is a breach of the provisions of the Customs Act 1901 and Customs Regulations 1926. Once a breach has occurred, the security amount equivalent to the duty and GST (and Luxury Car Tax (LCT), if applicable) will be called up by Customs.

It's not just those moving around who would benefit from a national approach. We all pay for having eight different governments all duplicating effort. It's like a sheltered workshop for public servants. Imagine if we had 8 separate immigration departments with red tape every time you crossed a state border - well what we have with cars amounts to the same thing.
The only good thing about separate state authorities is that when you become persona non grata in one, you can transfer licenses, rego etc to another.
The States are a waste of space and duplication of effort. They are defined by arbitrary lines drawn on a map 200 years ago. With modern travel and communication they are meaningless.
Bob

Bob

We are going off topic a little, National Rego to abolition of the states.

You may save some money by abolishing the states and having the Federal Governement take over the delivery of services, but do you really think they will do it better!

You would end up even more politisized distrubution of services, rememeber the Minister af few years ago distrubuting funds to safe party seats based on a scribbles on a whiteboard.
Politizing still does happen at all levels but at over all there is distrubution.
People want Local Government to exist because it represents and addresses local issues, the next level addresses issues that concern a wider audience, then the Federal Govt exists.

yes I agree far too many snouts at the feeding trough sort of thing..

I personally think we sack local and state government and with better management we might be a much better country

example how many local councils have been sack by state governments for mismanagement answer far too many

Right on Jack. State governments are the biggest single cause of waste, duplication of services and procrastination this country has. The Pollies go around in circles for ever blaming each other. The High Court lawyers grow rich. But the one thing you can guarantee is that the States would agree to oppose the idea if it ever went to a referendum. And you can guarantee that which ever party was in opposition in Canberra at the time they would run a fear campaign against the proposal on the grounds that it was a "grab for power" by the other mob.
Water management, energy, health, education, transport etc etc. We need a single national policy on the lot.

"how many local councils have been sack by state governments for mismanagement answer far too many".
Yes far too many allein m and yet WALGA (West Aus Local Gov Assoc) has the temerity to constantly advertise itself as "the most trusted form of government"!!!!
Maybe they don't read or listen to the news.
AlanH.

Beatit, I think you will find if you do a little research that the 8 cents per litre was special levies on fuel by other state governments to fund their own road programs and has nothing to do with Federal Government excise that has always been paid by Queensland motorists. The other states originally collected the money themselves until that action was ruled invalid by (I think) the High Court. The Feds took over collection and handed the money back to the states. Queensland used to give it back via the oil companies but good old Anna Bligh could not resist the temptation and put it into Government coffers.
The history of these things is as important as it is in explaining why we have state governments. They are the building blocks that make up our Nation. And that is most unlikely to change.
Kevin

@KevinS,
Got it in one! The Federal government is just that, a government made up of a federation of the states. The constitution is not even an Australian law, it is British!
So ... long story short, the States will not vote themselves out of existence, and the only ways to rid ourselves of the waste is to either, have the British parliament amend the constitution of Australia to "unwrite" the states, OR get some sensible discussions happening between Fed and States, and remove duplications.
I, for one, will vote to remove the states if asked, but not holding breath waiting!

G'day Kevin,
I was aware of the background but just truncated the story to keep it simple. Unfortunately I am old enough to remember hahahaha.
It goes back to a NSW court case where the power to levie an excise by the states was challenged by a storekeeper who was I think fiddling the cigarette prices or selling chop chop and as you know the High Court ruled state excise as illegal. Only the Commonwealth had the power to excise but to save the state tax base a "work around" was quickly organised. I know this remains truncated!

And with a part of my life working in Government I can agree that our taxes are constantly wasted by politicians and serving public service - but we all know that!

Kind regards

We're the same people just living in different parts Al. Being different is just one of those myths perpetuated by all our levels of government to keep themselves in slack jobs plus all their hangers on.
I was chatting to a Singaporean once when there was a push for a republic going on and he said then "You don't want to worry about the Queen being the figure head of the country, you should be worried about having so many governments".
Totally ludicrous in this day and age to be bound by state lines drawn many many moons ago when you had to get about by horse, camel or boat.
AlanH.

I completely agree with Alan TH. The State Pollies have a vested interest in telling us that they are protecting their state from all the other wicked states. They are a very inefficient and expensive hangover from the days before Federation when each State genuinely was essentially a separate country, even with their own militia and navy.

slack jobs in govt departments? Inefficient? Rip-off, gouging at every opportunity?

....and we work our nuts off to pay for them.