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Thursday May 17, 2012

What we're talking about

  • John of Caloundra on Choice between China and USA? Yes, mick. Communism and Socialism is all about the individual, and not about society.My god man. Stop it. Before you ... more
  • John of Caloundra on Spyware a breach of liberties? Erm; spyware I thought is illegal regardless of it being on kids computers or the ones at the library. I'm not sure hackers ... more
  • mick on Choice between China and USA? Cry people with morals and nouse get your point very clearly, these morons have no morality and certainly no nouse just like ... more
  • John of Caloundra on Tony Abbott on Drive Ah, Amy with her fairy tales. Not grounded in reality. And cry, happily we live in Australia where people contribute to ... more
  • Richard on Choice between China and USA? So I take that as a yea for communism then Bob.Too many faults too list.China is not our freind, Bob.In fact China has major ... more
  • John of Caloundra on Will they have to go back? Well, twice the courts have heard both sides of the story (as opposed to most of us), and twice have decided to return the ... more
  • John of Caloundra on More Origin games in Melbourne? I heard Dickson say that he's busy talking to the racing industry. I hope he is making sure he's talking to the greyhound ... more
  • Peter R on Choice between China and USA? I bet Tibet would like to choose a godfather between USA & China. more
  • Bob Lord on Will they have to go back? The courts say they go back, they should go back. more
  • Bob Lord on Choice between China and USA? Dear CRYSo America joined WWII to save China? I thought it was because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. And we were there to ... more
  • John of Caloundra on Choice between China and USA? Gee Cry, its almost as if previous alliances are reviewed on an ongoing basis! And it's almost as if individuals comments ... more
  • CRY FREEDOM on Choice between China and USA? Richard, I believe Bob Lord has finally shown his true communist colors, the capitalist society caused the GFC statement is ... more
  • CRY FREEDOM on Choice between China and USA? To the uneducated I will explain, America supports China from Japanese aggression and in return gets attacked themselves. ... more
  • Bob Lord on More Origin games in Melbourne? No way, one every three years is plenty for Melbournites. All they do is mock our superior NRL game anyway. more
  • Bob Lord on Choice between China and USA? Gee, I don't know. Go with our biggest trading partner whose economy is thriving. Or go with the warmongers whose economy is ... more
  • Bob Lord on Tony Abbott on Drive Dear CRY, Bella and DickThe LNP have made it clear, they WILL be repealing the Carbon Tax and all that is linked to it, they ... more
  • Richard on Tony Abbott on Drive If there is no Carbon Tax then there is no need for tax cuts or pension increases.Thanks for that Bob,BRING IT ON! more
  • Richard on Choice between China and USA? Communism or Democracy.Why are we even entertaining the thought?Bob Carr is a nutcase, but gets elevated to Foreign Minister ... more
  • John of Caloundra on Choice between China and USA? Wow, it's easy to engender fear and anger in the digital age, isn't it? And Cry, why do you point out this "history" as ... more
  • John of Caloundra on ACTU calls for casual workers to be ... Absolutely. It's too easy to whack someone on a casual rate and leave them in that situation where they have little job ... more

Vote to drive?

Posted by: 4bc.com.au | 1 February, 2012 - 7:14 AM
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4BC Drive: Should you lose your license for non-motoring related fines? Brisbane man, Scott Conradi faces losing his license after failing to vote in the 2006 election. Scott joins 4BC Drive, followed by RACQ Head of Technical & Safety Policy Steve Spalding who weighs in on the debate.

Blog comments Your Say

  • John of Caloundra would be happy in a dictatorship. We shouldn't be force to vote in the first place. In fact government using a driver's licence as a tool of bullying a voter has just summed up the nanny state we live in.

    anne Tuesday 7 February, 2012 - 6:32 PM

  • Scott: So, according to you, a person should be permitted to flaunt the laws by not voting; then not paying the fine levied; then not paying the penalties levied for not paying the fine within 5 years?
    He was notified regularly; he just said he was travelling too much to get the letters.
    Vote in the first place and this doesnt happen.
    It isn't stalinist. It's just the legal way that SPER go about recovering bad debts.

    John of Caloundra Thursday 2 February, 2012 - 4:58 PM

  • If you don't pay a fine you should be summonsed to appear in court. If you fail to appear or do not pay a court imposed fine, you should then be arrested for contempt of court and may be jailed.
    The RTA are not magistrates and should not be able to dish out sanctions for anything at all.
    Sounds like a Police State policy to me - Vote 1 Stalin?

    Scott Thursday 2 February, 2012 - 8:02 AM

  • @JOC if I understand this correctly you agree that if you do not vote then you should be fined and if you do not pay the fine you should loss your licence. But if you vote rort like ALP member Mike Keiser and you fall on your sword you then get a $400 thousand plus job with the NBN.

    CRY FREEDOM Wednesday 1 February, 2012 - 9:13 PM

  • @JOC you also forgot leftie

    CRY FREEDOM Wednesday 1 February, 2012 - 8:58 PM

  • Cry, socialist, communist Queensland eh? Rightio then.

    I suppose the fellow could have paid his fine. Or better yet, actually voted. Rather than whining about things after the fact.

    John of Caloundra Wednesday 1 February, 2012 - 1:19 PM

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