The Westfield at Kotara, NSW has paid parking, but you only pay after 3 hours. Less than that is free. On the plus side, they have installed a system to monitor car spaces and each one has a bi-colour light to show free or occupied. It makes it significantly easier to find a space. Westfield has to do something as their business model of increasing the rent each year to drive profit growth has slammed into a brick wall, with retail chains actively closing stores now in response to the massive rents.

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What do you mean? An African or European iPhone?

I've often thought this would be a great and fair idea. n=20% is probably a good rate too. If you earn a dollar you pay 20 cents tax; if you earn $1million you pay $200,000 tax. No deductions, no offsets. It would put a whole sector of hangers-on out of work, but wouldn't it be great overall. I'd love to see how the actual tax collection figures stack up versus the current system. The claims that it'll deter investment are a nonsense. If there is a dollar to be made, people will be in it.

I'm quite perplexed as to how these zeolots have managed to get the mainstream populace to go along with "nudity == porn". Now we have a society that is terrified of taking photos of their own children and any photographer even near children is viewed with suspicion. Whilst porn generally involves some nudity, the converse is not the case. Nudity without a sexual context cannot be pornography. There really isn't a paedophile hiding behind every tree waiting to photograph your children and beat off to the pics later.

...rot in hell McAfee.. after putting up with your crapware TPS at work all day.. f*ck you and f*ck your TPS garbage!

I think you mean Gatton, next door to Grantham. Grafton is in northern NSW. Still doesn't make it any better though :(

fear of her predicted death and not being able to prevent it.

Blog spam. Here is the actual story.

A good test of the purpose for the cameras being installed is this: "Are the cameras clearly sign posted?"
Here in NSW, AU most speed cameras in high traffic areas are clearly sign posted, generally with 3 sets of big, can't miss them warning signs, especially on the motorways. This is about to change a little with our red light cameras being upgraded to digital "safety" cameras that do both speed and red light runners although they are still signposted. We are also about to get the mobile semi covert car based cameras again, but even they used to have to place a sign on the road to warn you.

Watch out or the "West Island" may annex you ;)

I nearly feel off my chair when I saw Microsoft Vista on a tv show the other day. I think it was Cougar Town. I'll have to go back and get a screen grab.

Why do all these crazy ideas revolve around GPS and the like? What's wrong with a simple solution?

When I visited New Zealand a few years ago, I was surprised by the huge difference in price between petrol and diesel. Turns out, they don't tax the diesel at the pump like petrol, but instead charge you the tax based on your mileage which is obtained by reading the odometer at registration time each year. Yes I know that you can interfere with odometers, but this is already against the law, so has the added bonus of not requiring new laws to enforce.

Seriously, disagree != troll

Just because this person has a personal experience that does not fit the current perception or stereotype of TSA, does not make him or her a troll.

As someone who lives in New South Wales, allow me to elaborate on the real issues here.

[ ] many drivers drive too fast
[X] many drivers drive too slow
[X] many drivers tailgate / travel too close
[X] many drivers have poor lane discipline
[X] many drivers can't read the traffic / have no road craft skills
[X] many drivers are incompetent
[ ] many drivers are idiots
[X] many drivers think that their job is to form a rolling roadblock to force everyone else to drive at their speed
[X] many drivers are unlicenced/suspended and unregistered/uninsured
[ ] many drivers are drunk/drug affected
[x] many drivers are too busy playing with radio/cd/GPS/cell phone
[x] many drivers are too busy watching speedo for fear of getting booked by hidden cop/ speed camera
[x] many drivers don't know how to overtake safely
[ ] there aren't enough visible police on patrol
[X] there aren't any visible police on patrol
[x] the speed limit changes every hundred metres
[x] knee jerk responses by politicians

Of course, none of these will be solved by using GPS to restrict car speeds as most people don't speed here anyway.