28/07/2025
I’m off to court over a faulty parking ticket machine that took my cash and gave me nothing.
I got frazzled, 'overstayed' they say - and now I’m staring down a fine I can’t afford.
Funny thing is questioning the reasonableness of the fine is a criminal matter. Nobody can tell me which part - the parking? The leaving it? The taking off? - makes me on-par with a machette wielding bandit... And they just don't care.
The privilege, the inertia, the slippery slope it creates — it’s dead broken.
This is not the kind of Australia I’ll vote for, and it's not one I’ll pay to sustain.
Feel the same?
Fix Victoria’s Broken Fine System — No More Slugging Citizens Over Trivial Mistakes