TBLOID STORY ON FICTITIOUS PARKING FINES/BILLS/NOTICES

Parking secrets in Melbourne

Article from:

Fiona Hudson

August 23, 2009 12:00am

TAKE a look at our top 20 ticket-busting secrets.

1. BIG footy matches are a ticket bonanza. The bushfires tribute game in February, the NAB Cup grand final in March, Ben Cousins’s first game with the Tigers and the Collingwood versus North Melbourne match in May accounted for four of the top five most ticketed days.

The Mikiverse says; The City of Melbourne is a corporation that needs to make a profit according to the appropriate legislation,needs to make a profit. This goes a long way towards explaining why ticket inspectors posses such a zealous attitude toward your parked motor car/motor vehicle.

In addition to football matches, cricket, concerts and other events are generally viewed by parking inspectors as income opportunities.

And, isn't it nice of the City of Melbourne to be so opportunistic, as to prey on people who are offering tangible financial support to the victims of those horrific bushfires?

And, what are we to make of the foreign owned Herald Sun REFUSING TO SUPPORT these humanitarians who gave their money and time-only to be slugged with a 'fine' by the City of Melbourne.

This organisation is headed by Robert Doyle who while on A.B.C radio this morning, revealed to Jon Faine that he needed to be given more power to 'deal' with the so-called violence that the tabloid press have been driving as part of their agenda to exploit and profit of people's emotions.

Robert Doyle is the failed State Liberal leader who Victorians DID NOT WANT as their premier-so, the obvious question is why would we want him to have more power than he seems to posses at the moment?

Councils already have a reputation for arrogance-look at how Port Phillip Council callously ignored the wishes of their community to formulate contracts for the controversial triangle project that might end up killing the St.Kilda foreshore, coastline and scores of local business'.

No, we do not want over zealous failed politicians with a lust for power, or for councils to achieve their dishonourable desires.

Oh yes, did you know that a parking ticket is really a notice, or a bill that offers you an invitation to enter into a contract to pay an amount of money to the poster of the bill?

YOU ARE UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO PAY A "FINE" IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO!!!

FOREIGN OWNED HERALD SUN RUNS HIT PIECE ON CAR REGISTRATION

READ ORIGINAL HERALD SUN ARTICLE HERE

"BAR codes and computer chips could replace vehicle registrations in Victoria one day under a dramatic rethink of number plate designs."

The Mikiverse understands that there is a chip implanted within the tax registration sticker that you choose to place on your car window. Also, there are chips implanted in your air bags.

"The three-letter, three-digit number plates, introduced in 1977, have worked their way through to XXX-000 and are expected to revert to AAA-000 in the next 12 months, sparking calls for a new style of plate for the Garden State."

Calls by whom and for what reason? There is no law that requires any one to have a number, or a tax plate on their car. Can we presume that these calls are being made by a nefarious party that doesn't have our best interests at heart?

"Austroads, the association of Australian and New Zealand traffic authorities, was reported to be investigating embedding identification chips in cars"

Who are these traffic authorities? Can't be Vic Roads-they are an agency of a state government. Governments are our SERVANTS and agencies are subserviant to them, thereby precluding them from being in a position to give orders or make decisions, as per one of the definitions of the word 'authorities'. The other meaning, of course is to be an acknowledged expert, and I am rather dubious of any claims put forward that the agency, or the corporation known as Roads Corporation.

"and RACV public policy manager Brian Negus said while bar code number plates might be a long way into the future, Victoria could adopt innovative registration methods already available."

What has the RACV got to do with anything? Why no mention of the fact that you only need to register your motor vehicle, if you decide to apply for a licence?

Is this part of the process of adjusting the public to the invasive practices of the Orwellian Communist-Fascist State that has crept up around us?

THE AGE FRAUDELENTLY ATTACKS AUSTRALIAN CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP

This is an article printed in The Age newspaper in Melbourne back in 2004. This article unfairly maligns Peter Olney and important civil liberties group UPMART. Interestingly there was no follow up story from The Age when Peter won on appeal in the County Court in 2005.

READ THE ORIGINAL AGE ARTICLE HERE

Registration scheme bogus

By Dan Silkstone
June 7, 2004

The State Government and VicRoads have warned Victorians about a civil liberties group offering motorists lifetime vehicle registration for $500 and issuing illegal number plates.

The group, which claims to have 3500 Australian members, is known as the United People Movement Against Road Tolls.

UPMART's website offers the chance to "claim a lawful exemption from paying road tolls" under a scheme dubbed Common Law Vehicle Registration. The website promises, "Pay once forever!!" and claims to offer lawful car registration.

While other Victorian bumpers proclaim the state as "The place to be", UPMART gives members home-made plates bearing the words "HM Elector's Parliament" (HM stands for Her Majesty's).

Transport Minister Peter Batchelor said such schemes were "highly illegal".

"People who participate in these schemes are being ripped off and are subject to severe penalties for driving an unregistered vehicle," he said.

State Labor backbencher Tony Robinson raised concerns about the group in Parliament, saying he had seen an advertisement for the scheme in the newsletter of Box Hill senior citizen's group, National Seniors.

"I am very concerned that the National Seniors organisation and others might be misled by the advertisement," he said.

Peter Olney, 62, an UPMART member and spokesman, displays the group's black-and-white numberplates on his four-wheel-drive and backs the group's fight against what he sees as an unjust licensing and registration system.

Mr Olney, of Mitcham, said UPMART's lifetime registration cost him $500.

He said UPMART members believed the scheme was legal under citizenship rights from the British Bill of Rights, the Australian Constitution and the Road Safety Act.

Mr Olney will appear before the Ringwood Magistrates Court next month to appeal against a $110 fine he received in January for driving a car without legal registration. VicRoads says several people have been fined for displaying the plates and have fought unsuccessful court actions.

"There is no provision for common law vehicle registration in the Road Safety Act," said VicRoads General Manager Geoff Shanks.

Mr Olney said the Road Safety Act did not specify that VicRoads was the only body permitted to offer a registration service and claimed that UPMART was legally allowed to offer Victorians an alternative. He said "dozens" of drivers bore UPMART plates.

Mr Batchelor said VicRoads was the only agency authorised to register vehicles in Victoria. Fines for driving an unregistered vehicle cost up to $500.

The group also claims its scheme allows motorists to avoid paying for tollways.