Not so long ago Julie Bishop said in Question Time “She created the stolen vehicle that the bank robbers took to the bank to rob the bank”. The implication was that Julia Gillard created a legal vehicle that was later misused and therefore was implicated.

Using Julie Bishop’s same logic she must also accuse car manufactures that produce cars that have the capability of exceeding the speed limit, of speeding and thus speed related road fatalities. Road Policing Statistics state that for all fatalities speeding accounts for 34%.

I may be accused of drawing a long bow as Julie Bishop clearly was. The question that remains to be answered is why we have vehicles capable of 430kmph such as the Bugatti Veyron on our roads, when the fastest you are able to drive legally drive in Australia is I believe, 130kmph in the NT. You don’t need a Bugatti as Australia’s cheapest car the Chery J1 will exceed speed limits.

We have the technology to limit speed and as a consequence potentially reduce fatalities up to 34%. It would also reduce none fatal injuries that cost individuals and the community generally so much. In addition to safety it would free up our police forces, be less demanding on roads and reduce our carbon footprint just to mention a few.

Silly me! I just thought limiting the speed of vehicles would reduce revenue as it would make “Flash for Cash” virtually facilities obsolete

You do realise that Bishop was being metaphorical? She was drawing a comparison between a get-away car and our beloved leader's AWU 'slush fund'. Both were used to steal money although one was used to steal from banks and the other was used to steal from workers.

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Yep that did not elude me. The other metaphor has obviously eluded you? Read it again with the eye patch off. Some on subject comment would be appreciated.

I apologise for the couple of typos, I should spend more time proof reading.

Nah, Bishops analogy is valid. Gillard intimated that she was “just a girl” at the time…a stooge in love. She drove the getaway car while fondling her then current union lover’s testis.

Like Patty Hearst, she was just along for the ride and like Patty Hearst, Gillard now gets a whopping $500,000 a year since she voted herself a $130,000 pay rise last year.

The old class comment of "let them eat cake" came to mind when I found that all the pollies greedily took monetary kudos but knowing they are dismal failures.

Producer I have spoken of my 22 years working for what was then the DMR/RTA on the Pacific Highway Death strip.
Not much fun, counting the dead.
Leaving bed , running to get on site at 2am to yet another fatal.
No car, no truck ever killed.
All such are bought about by the driver.
A truck driver, in front of me, said the truck he ran it to bought about the smash, it was going too slow!

Producer, anyone can hop into a car and travel at 90km/hr down a one way crowded street, a 40 K shared zone, as every car made today will do that speed.

So what would you think is worse, 90 in that case, or 320 down the highway, or more so, which of these two do you think is more likely to happen in every day life.

Besides, very few can afford a 320km/hr car, but even a bomb will do 90.

As Belly says, it's all about the driver, not the car.

And Belly, cars/trucks do die, just look at the amount of junk yards.

It depends on your interpretation of dying. But at least they get recycled.