Australia (Victoria and SA) was the first to make seat-belt use compulsory. Other countries followed our example. Presumably this make us guilty of of being a foreign country interfering in other people's affairs.

Paul, Indy has just demonstrated that on his own criterion (more education=greater stupidity) he has a PhD in Psychology.

And you MR OPINION, what's your claim to fame? At least HASBEEN enjoyed a very successful career in the Navy as an aviator, which requires a high level of technical skill! And you, what've you got to boost your hitherto 'claimed' technical expertise? Squat I'd imagine!

HASBEEN possess's a basic life skill, called pragmatism. He's a realist, he lives in the real world, unlike you sunshine, but the rules of propriety inhibit me from telling you precisely from whence you've come!

The National's leader McCormack or whatever it is has already said
that 30km/hr would not work in Australia.
The 40km/hr school zone causes a significant jam up near here every day.
There is a problem in that the UN keeps coming up with mad trendy
proposals on all sorts of subjects. Remember the one on immigration
that caused a rumpus last year? I think it died a natural death when
only those countries who wanted to get rid of people signed up.

"The 40km/hr school zone causes a significant jam up near here every day."

The situation before the introduction of lower speed limits around schools, morning and afternoon during school days, about 4 hours a day for 200 days a year, coupled with more aggressive policing, eg catching illegal parkers and speeders, has resulted in children's lives being saved. Too bad about some small measure of inconvenience for a selfish few. Bazz do you choose a child's death over jam up? I'll choose jam up any day.

And another mad UN proposal see the one on Religious loviness on OLO.