Great Central Road Feedback

G'dday Nav 8

your post quote "The Laverton police do random checks on permits on that road from time to time. "......is that a statement of fact?

my understanding is that permits are absoutley nothing whatsoever to do with police. Yes, I can well be wrong but I would be interested in hearing that is definately a fact

for the record I have travelled that road without a permit and will continue to do so.....for christ's sake we are travelling along a public funded road from A to B and at the worst pulling over for a camp o/night......its about time some commonsense prevailed with these stupid bloody permits

This mob I was involved with didn't worry about permits,

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Mate,,I am with you 100% with regard to permits, it offends me to have to get a permit to travel, or see any part of our country. It is also a condition of the permit that you don`t venture X metres from the road verge. To answer your question with regard to the Police checking permits. I was once asked at Docker river to produce my permit by the person in charge of the community. I have never been personally stopped by police to show my permit but have been told by police that they do check. Whether its a police matter or not I do not know but the fact is that the law says we have to have a permit and that being the case I would think it would be a police matter. When we lived in Kalgoorlie my wife worked for the Education department that administered the schools out there, they even had to have a yearly permit to travel out there. Also no travel was allowed on any roads out there during tribal lore, so there you go it`s not our country after all. I think all these areas that require permits are gazetted as private Aboriginal land. The above is just my understanding of how it is so don`t take this as gospel.
Regards,,,Nav.

Thanks Nav 8....

I think a significant number of members have an issue with these permits but maybe choose not to start a brawl on here over it....WELL my next comment will probably start one!

These damn communities take all from the "other Australian" communities and yet that same other community needs permits to go and assist and provide services to the said community.....that is if you want to come and give us everything we demand and expect from you will require our permission to do so..........!

If the vast majority of travellers simply choose a policy of public non compliance (public disobedience) and NEVER applied for permits I wonder what would really happen?...what are they going to do Set up Road Blocks?...prosecute evey traveller? what a waste of resources

I reckon the system would simply overload, implode and become redundant............

Its not hard to do the right thing. Go on line and book a permit, costs nothing and takes very little time. Rules are rules, can not choose the ones we want or what would the world come to. Cheers Tony :-)

Bungarra - Yes totally agree with you.

Isn't it time we were one land one people, surely we can still respect each others beliefs without having to have bits of paper to travel the land. We all pay taxes for the roads we travel.

And why should we have to pay to visit the likes of Standley Chasm when its our taxes that maintain the road access. "The Community" charge the fee to access the Chasm now do the community still get Government handouts?

Dave