ex-PM gold card benefits courtesy of the long-suffering Aussie taxpayer.
otb,
Joe Hockey said the Gold Card is history.
re status vehicles, I'd like to see registrations adjusted to the number of cylinders & cc of the engine. We certainly would see more small cars in Foxy's Supermarket parking lot. RV's do not belong in inner cities.

Where do you live Individual?

In Queensland registrations are charged on the number of cylinders, & have had for years. This is most unfair in fact.

I have a 140 BHP 1 ton V8 which costs me around $1000 a year.

I have a 265 BHP 1.3 ton 4 cylinder which costs just over $500. That is a small 2 seater convertible, & the first one is even smaller. Surely the lighter smaller car should be cheaper under your idea.

There are plenty of turbo 4 cylinder cars with much higher power, & much heavier than either of the above, so how do you come up with your choice of who to hit with charges for owning naughty cars.

Personally I think we should triple the charges for paper thin dangerous small shopping trolleys. They are the dangerous cars, causing more injuries to their drivers, & should be discouraged. The really little things that fold up if hit by a sparrow should be banned if anything.

Don't believe those 5 star safety ratings either. They are the result of carefully engineered crash testing, & have very little if any relationship to the results of real world crashes. They are controlled by ridiculous things like how many airbags the things have, not by how they fold up round a driver when hit in normal crashes.

The following link may be of interest:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/most-drivers-want-a-city-4wd-ban/story-e6frf7kx-1111118418990

It would be interesting to conduct a survey and see how many people - still feel the same way today.

Where did all of the envy that is so rife in Oz ever come from? That and constantly minding what is going on in their neighbours' backyards.

Did lax immigration policy import the whingers, did that fool Gough Whitlam legitimise them, their quickly-assumed victimhood and endless demands, or is it simply that the tabloid media and internet have given them a podium? The media sell to an audience and they win the whingers cheaply with invitations to play 'Ain't it Awful'.

I suppose their leaders like the recently departed Julia Whatshername encouraged envy and all sorts of other nasty stuff. Who can forget her 'Progressive' gender and Class wars? Hey, it was only so Julia could live and travel in the style to which she wanted to become accustomed.

Well Hasbeen, the public servant regulators have never been known for
consistency unless it has been for getting it wrong.
A few years back the registration of electric cars was impossible
because various requirements for petrol cars could not be entered into
the various boxes on the forms.
The forms could not be accepted otherwise.
I am told it required a song and dance to be put on by the applicant
until they reverted to the old manual method.

Hasbeen's reply has made me think of another way of working out how much registration should be. How about the number of kilometres travelled at the end of the month instead of up front for a whole year? A little like an electricity meter because why should I pay $600 + for a vehicle that only does about 200 km a year or less ? Same goes for trailers. If you only tow your boat to ramp 4 times a year for a total of 10 km then $220 is a bit steep.