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Fiddling with the meter is something that has been going on for ages. The problem in mounting a prosecution is determining whose hand fiddled with the setting. Also, there are not enough Weights and Measures inspectors to do the checking.

An accounting nightmare. How would the rate per km be determined? The one determinate would be the mass of the vehicle since the amount of damage a vehicle does to a road surface is dependent on the vehicle's mass. But then, what about money for the upkeep of signalling devices, signage, lane marking etc? The problem is in determining how the GST revenue is distributed. If yoiu are interested, here's a link to a document about it: https://www.cgc.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-11/research_paper_no_2_-_why_states_get_different_shares_of_gst_0.pdf

At least we are lucky that GST is only 10%. Ask Jerry what 20% is like. We should resist any thought of increasing the rate. Quite simply, think of the cost of changing pricing ongoods and services due to an increase of any size. I look upon 10% GST as a tithe by which a secular society supports its government. Coming from Old Testament biblical law, it was originally used to support the Levites (priestly Class) and the poor, but today it is largely viewed as a voluntary act of faith and stewardship, often distinguished from further optional offerings. In a secular society, those optional offerings are called Income Tax.

Do you think that it wa a lesson hammered home to me in my youth? Just thought it was the simplest way to explain the relationship between Force and Momentum that Facthunter had alluded to in his post. As an aside, the reason that modern cars have crumple zones is to delay the transfer of Momentum from the initial point of contact in a collision to the bodies of the occupants who should be attached to the vehicle by restraining devices. Also the crumple zones allow for the disperal of Momentum by the deformation of the vehilce's body, the generation of sound and of heat. The Law of Conservation of Momentum, which is a special case of the Law of Conservvation of Energy, means that Momentum not transferred between colliding bodies must be changed into some other form of energy so that the total energy of the system before collision equals to total energy afterwards. Random Tought: If a bloke is subject of a Restraining Order, can he ride in vehicle unrestrained?

My mistake.

While it is true that F= ma, what does the damage in a collision is the transfer of Momentum from one body to another. Imagine that you lay your open hand on a bench then slowly place a 1 kg weight on it. Because if the slow speed of the hammer as it contacts your hand, there is virtually no pain. You just feel an increase in pressure at the point of contact. Now drop the hammer from 30 cms. The hammer will have a higher velocity and therefore greater momentum. When it reaches your hand, that greater momentum is going to create more pressure (Pressure = Force per unit area) as the momentum of the hammer is transferred to your hand, and thus more pain. Also involved is the rate of change of momentum, which is called Impulse. It's the magnitude of the Impulse on your body that causes pain. If the hammer is lowered slowly, it takes longer for the transfer of momentum to take place. Therefore the Impulse is less (Impulse = Change in Momentum divided by time) than if the time taken for the hammer to transfer its momentum is less.

Yeah, the buses run on pupil-free days, too.

So, you will bear the responsibility for the actions of the Australian Government even if that Government is not of your preferred Party? (Had to frame it that way - preferred party - to avoid introducing anti "this one or that one" comments.)

I'm sure you do, and your initial post reflects that, but road rules are rules of"strict liability". A driver, virtually has no defence, except in the event of an unavoidable accident. Proving unavoidable accident is pretty hard. The final arbitor is the Criminal Court, so a driver has already been penalised by the act of ddefending the allegation. The only place that considers the actions of the other party is the Civil Court, and then it is only to decide how much responsibility each party has for teh incident. The Court would start by assigning at least 50% to the driver, and work from there.

Every weekday morning during school term, two diesel-powered buses pass my place to begin their school runs, picking up kids from farms to take to teh schools in town. I don't know how long these pick-up routes are, but I suspect around 100 kms would not be too far wrong. Then in the afternoon they do the run in reverse direction. That's two buses, privately owned on a government contract. There are another three school runs for the local schools. There is also a run of 120 kms total or more to schools in Dubbo. The fuel mileage rate is no doubt a fixed amount in those contracts, and that amount would have been set at the beginning of the year. How will the bus company continue to operate with fuel prices rising as they are? The obvious thing is that the buses will stop running. That will mean that these kids will not be able to get to school. It is too inefficient for individual families to be driving their kids to and from school each day. I have a neighbour who lives "close" to town at about 25 kms. That's 100 kms per day taking the kids in the morning; coming home , and doing the same in the afternoon. Will this fuel crisis spawn another generatiion of kids who miss out on a decent education, even though they might be home-schooled? Look at the current crop of under-18s whose education was disrtupted by COVID. Look at the social problems we got from that.

There are about 9 million Iranians. Nine Million Iranians more than somewhat annoyed at having their lives endangered and their economy destroyed, all over supposed weapons of mass destruction that it seems they know how to make, but don't have all the bits and pieces to do so. There is only one regime that needs to be changed, and that sits on the North American continent.

Strewth! it's 48 years since Superman, The Movie came out!

A metre further on and Onetrack would hav been up Shyte Creek if the bloke had hit him, no doubt causing serious injury o even death. The reason: Onetrack was crossing the footpath and "failed to give way to a pedestrian on the footpath". Here's a point. I know that it's an offence for an adult to ride a bike long a footpath, and Posties have to remain below 10 kph. However, I doubt if the Law has caught up to E-scooters to include them in that rule. There is (was?) an offence of 'Furious riding" which applied to bikes. Nevertheless, it is the primary duty of the driver of a motor vehicle to avoid collisions with persons, animals and objects. In the case of persons, it does not matter what contribution they might make to the collsion. Sucks, don't it?

Yes Gina does employ lots of ordinary Australians, both directly in the extraction of minerals, but also by those backroom people who support the miners. Don't forget the tooth-to-tail ratio of the military also applies to the support requirements of Gina's miners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth-to-tail_ratio You can't attack her for not contributing to the economic condition of us all, as you cannot attack the CEO' of ColesWorths for what they do. Pauline is a different fish. She is influencing people by bolstering their bigotry. She uses what all political Parties have been using for the past few decades- the simple slogan that is supposed to express a truth but which is mostly devoid of practical meaning. What exactly does "Make America Great Again" mean? Labor's "It's Time" had more meaning in its contemporary context. One Nation does not seem to have much to say about anything other than immigration and its racial effects. One Nation may say that Middle Eastern, Asian, Pacific Islander immigrants have greatly altered what being an Australian is, but the elephant in the room is the cultural immigration of the USA. And One Nation seems to be all for sidling up to Uncle Sam at the expense of relations with countries who had influence on mqaking an Australian in our formative years.

Don't you think that over the past couple of months a lot of countries have been reconsidering their need for close relationships with the USA because of Trump's behaviour? Many countries seem to be looking for trade partnerships with countries of holding similar views. If you think about it, all the alliances wiht the USA seem to be based on the idea that any government system that is not similar to that of the USA is planning to invade, and therefore there is a need for the military protection of the USA.