Posted in New South Wales on Nov 26th, 2009
The NSW government’s “re-announcement” of a plan to roll out digital red light cameras at busy intersections is incompetent and embarrassing, the state opposition says.
NSW Transport Minister David Campbell says 200 digital red light cameras will replace its network of obsolete “wet film” cameras.
The announcement comes seven years after it was first proposed by former [...]
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Posted in ACT, Automotive news, New South Wales, New Zealand, Northern Territory, Queensland, Radar Detectors, South Australia, Speed Cameras, Speeding Fines, Tasmania, UK, USA, Victoria, Western Australia on Nov 6th, 2009
Alan Jones talks to Lord Monckton, British climate change sceptic, who says the Copenhagen treaty is about creating a dictatorship world government
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Posted in New South Wales on Oct 22nd, 2009
PUBLIC servants need to realise ethics and integrity are not out of fashion, nor are they optional, the NSW Ombudsman’s annual report says.
The Ombudsman received more than 30,000 complaints in the past year, according to its 2008-2009 annual report, released today.
Some of the complaints referred to dodgy NSW police practices.
A police officer who was issued [...]
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Posted in New South Wales on Sep 23rd, 2009
More NSW people are dying on the roads as a result of the economic downturn, according to a leading safety group.
The director of the NSW Centre for Road Safety, Soames Job, said an extra 64 people had been killed to date on the state’s roads compared with the same period last year.
Dr Job said yesterday [...]
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Posted in New South Wales on Jun 23rd, 2009
One of the state’s most senior traffic policemen has denied highway patrol officers were developing a culture of concealment to trap speeding motorists on the F3 Freeway in 2006 that went against standing orders and put police at risk, an inquest has heard. Not so, according to local motorists.
The denial came yesterday on the second [...]
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