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Ryan Bridge: This country's fines make no sense · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: This country's fines you've probably noticed this make very little sense.
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  Speaker 1: You can get seventy bucks for parking for a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes over in the wrong spot in a CBD area,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars for driving in a bus lane,
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  Speaker 1: which is a massive really, that's a big fine by comparison,
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  Speaker 1: and that is the exact same amount you can get
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  Speaker 1: for texting while driving, an act which could, in theory
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  Speaker 1: distract you enough to kill somebody on the road. So
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  Speaker 1: that kind of makes no sense. So what gives you
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  Speaker 1: can get thirty bucks for going a few k's over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred on a main road. Anyone who's been to Australia,
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  Speaker 1: those things are very different. They're way harsher. People generally
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  Speaker 1: follow the rules of the road as a result. You
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  Speaker 1: might have seen that if you're driven over an OZ,
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  Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean that no one's crashing there and
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  Speaker 1: no one's dying on their roads either, does it. The
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  Speaker 1: problem is revenue gathering. As you well know, if you
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  Speaker 1: actually set the fines based on the potential damage that
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  Speaker 1: an action may cause, we'd have a totally different system
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  Speaker 1: and set of punishments. But you would also have councils
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  Speaker 1: and cops who take the mickey and go revenue grab
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  Speaker 1: speeding cameras in areas where no one's seen a crash
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  Speaker 1: in decades. That kind of thing. That's basically why we
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  Speaker 1: are where we are. There is one change, though, that
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  Speaker 1: I think we can make one that I support, wait
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  Speaker 1: for it, free parking for those over the age of eighty,
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the parking charges all together. Therefore get
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  Speaker 1: rid of the fines for them. Gore already does this. Congratulations, Gore,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to the party. Or Amadu is looking at doing
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  Speaker 1: this at the moment. They've got new parking meters installed
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  Speaker 1: in town. You see happen in December, and apparently this is,
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  Speaker 1: according to age concern making the elderly very anxious because
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  Speaker 1: they're digital. So you get two hours free, but then
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  Speaker 1: you have to enter your details of your car for
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  Speaker 1: a third hour. And they're very anxious about doing this
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  Speaker 1: in a digital way, and so they say the fear
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  Speaker 1: of getting a seventy dollars ticket is so much so
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  Speaker 1: great that they just don't go into town. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: isn't that that's seriously said? I think a massive setback
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  Speaker 1: for an older person. You're not going in there chatting
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  Speaker 1: to people in the mall, to the shop owners, to
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  Speaker 1: the cafe owners. It's less socializing, less practical, losing your
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  Speaker 1: independence for fear of a fine. I think it's unfair.
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  Speaker 1: If you've made it to eighty, you deserve to go
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  Speaker 1: to town in your own car without being worried of half
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  Speaker 1: your pension flying out the window and fines. For more
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