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The noise level of some exhausts would far exceed the sound level from headphones. On another quest. What about the level of window tinting allowed of vehicle windows, when you see vehicles using fully opaque items core flute, sunshade material, towels etc. where you cannot see through the...

What is the increase in vehicle km driven for 2024 compared to 2000? Everyone is blaming speed for the increase in ion the road toll. Well driving home today I witnessed a vehicle use the turn lane on a roundabout, entry, to overtake another vehicle waiting to enter the roundabout. No clear view...

All of the telcos are changing how they do business and to hell with what the consumer wants.

Yes, road deaths are horrific. We now have safer cars, safer roads and some road rules to make it safer. Pedestrians are not being legislated against, legislation is in place to make it safer around schools all good. We keep hearing about the fatal five, speed, distractions, drink, drugs and...

OPTUS will not change anything that may affect their bottom line and to hell with what the customers want. They are changing everything to increase their profit and the poor old consumer does not have a chance. OPTUS are advised of other issues with their performance and nothing happens.

How about looking at some of the other Centrelink payments Maternity leave etc.

Yes, losing five people a day is something that needs to be tackled. However, what is the increase in driver hour numbers now compared to some point in the past when the death rate was lower? We have a greater number of vehicles on the roads, some driving safer cars, where the road surface has...

These sorts of limits have been in place for many council areas for years. The term at rangers' discretion worries me as we have too many interpretations of what is and what is not the meaning of the legislations.

I find it worrying that we now have time of use prices in place from 07:00am to 10:00pm 7 days a week 52 weeks of the year. The reason to incentivize customers to change their power usage to cheaper times. So, we now need to have our evening meal and shower at midnight, get up at 5:00am to do...

OPTUS and possibly all TELCOs are now introducing payment by subscription only. What is payment by subscription? The telco will deduct an estimated amount from your card account, without advising how much, you will then be able to go online and look up your invoice, receipt. You will not have a...

Yes the telcos will provide the extra speed at no cost, while charging those who cannot even get decent speeds (above 20mBps download and 4Mbps upload more. The other favorite is to close a plan with slow speeds and force customers onto higher speed and cost plans.

Local councils have too much say in road rules now. There are different interpretations for some road rules and drives do not know what is what. Councils should be policed as to how they carryout the implementation of road rules.

These might be good for urban dwellers, however rural dwellers having to have one and pay for the service is a bit much. Why should someone with 20 hectares need a green waste bin?

This is misleading in that the quote cost is for a limited period only.

Why is it that vehicle registration and third party insurance also being funded by how far you drive formula? This would need to be tailored to cover remote and regional vehicles where the distance driven are larger.