Good day

I am interested in number of issues (many) of road safety. I cannot say one aspect because there are many and often one is interconnected with another. I treat road safety as a whole.

Sure there must be a starting point somewhere.

My initial contact is to find out anyone truly dedicated and not biased to start the process. I am a long term serious campaigner and I have lots of knowledge and observation in the area. In my quest to improve safety I found no organisation (including RAA) truly interested in improving safety.

If and I repeat if RAA would somehow start a true campaign towards improving safety and free traffic flow, than from your perspective, you would have to find out the causes.

Since I have established number of them, I can share with you. Than there would be appropriate to find out a suggestion and pass it to government along with publishing it for public knowledge and discussion.

I will state in general terms that except a few obvious examples of very extreme dangerous drivers, the government is to take full blame.

I am aware that people say yourself may look strange at such claims. But it is not a speculation, I know it is fact and you can know only if you wish to know.

To give you something to think, please acknowledge that road rules were never created to be known by heart by all drivers.

If anyone try to argue, one has no idea about road safety. I do not expect RAA to argue it’s validity, if you are professional I expect you to recognize it as fact. I am happy to discuss specific problems within the rules and derive with suggestions of proper rules.

Without a proper rules, it cannot be even considered that government do care for safety of public.

My findings and ideas surely are a subject of scrutiny. I do run my own webpage and make my findings a subject for debate or opinion. Your cooperation or non cooperation will also be on my website. Public has right to know what is going on and what are the problems and proposed solutions.

In my opinions RAA should become a road safety campaigner and behave in professional manner regardless if government like it or not.

In the past RAA behaved in way that I call unprofessional and supporting danger on the road. I’d rather concentrate on finding solution and cooperation than condemning you for your past.

By engaging in cooperation with me and perhaps others if they are any, RAA may not only contribute to safety on the roads but also benefit directly through the teaching drivers and advising government.

Thanks

Road safety campaigner

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To RAA Management (open letter) 25/08/10

As a long term road safety campaigner I’ve tried number of times to persuade your road safety officers to cooperate and to lobby the government for a safety rules and practices. I have also wrote to RAA asking for cooperation. Every time you have refused stating that you do support the government. It seems that you as RAA have insufficient understanding of road safety therefore you support the dangerous practices and rules of the government.

Once again I do invite you to join efforts and demand government to improve in radical way the rules and practices for the benefit of the society.

I see that if you agree, that we exchange the opinions of what is wrong and then try together find out best solution.

Present situation is extremely dangerous and unacceptable. I hope RAA is capable to find professionals who do understand those issues and is willing to take action to request government to improve number of key aspects of road and traffic management.

Please acknowledge that this message will appear on internet available for public to read.

Road safety campaigner

over the few years. I think that AMA makes only publicity and does not really care for

road safety nor road trauma.

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Hi Claudia, I got impression that AMA is representing interests only doctors associated with AMA.

Have I got an impression that you react to me a road safety campaigner as number of people to

religious people knocking their door? You seem to say regardless of what I want, no thanks.

Well, in the past I’ve contacted your organisation number of times and I was treated in similar way and always ignored.

This is my last attempt to see if AMA is interested in cooperating with me in order to improve road safety

not 0nlyto your doctors only but to whole society. Well, you referred me to government, as if you truly

wanted to have nothing to do with a strange self appointed road safety campaigner. Let me say it clearly;

government not only fails society but also acts against the interests of society. So my first and general

question to AMA is: are you interested in cooperation with me for the purpose to improve the road safety

for whole society? Than we may meet and discuss the issues. I already indicated that one of the issues

will surely be the suitability of GP in assessing the fitness to drive safely. I discern unfitness from fitness.

Surely there are number of other factors to be identified, analyzed and the result with recommendations

sent to the government and other relevant organisations. On a general note let me say that I have not

found any organisation truly interested in road safety.

Thanks for prompt reply Sincerely

road safety campaigner

Now the officials say that state does not give them power nor legislation to stop dog cruelty and negligence nor to ensure the peace in neighbourhood. Earlier they simply lied and denied the facts. The local government officials not short of insane behaviour. They for instance declare that they are serious on peace and responsible dog ownership, but do everything contrary to that. They made absolutely nothing to prevent dog problems, and they deny any reports on dog problems and finally they dismiss any evidence of problem dogs. I mean any evidence whether it is verbal report, written report, inspector seeing and hearing the problem deny any knowledge and even video evidence is not an evidence to the council.

There is not one specific dog creating a problem in whole council area. Almost all dogs are trouble making. Some owners are intelligent and they minimise the likelyhood of problem and majority are not. Also some dogs are trouble by their nature and other are placid. Nevertheless thousands of dogs in the council area do make problem for neighbourhood and they are also neglected and in many instances this is a serious negligence and cruelty to them.

It is negligence and cruelty when routinely dog is barking for hours without an end from early morning hours, as well as afternoon and late at night even after midnight. If this is going on for days, weeks and years, it is a gross negligence from the owner and from the local and state governments. There is no after hours contact to call and expect the problem is solved. The council instructs the operator of an emergency number not to take reports at all on barking dogs regardless of anything. The RSPCA is also instructed by Rann government not to take notice on barking dogs even when they bark for 3 days non stop.

It is then the conspiracy to let dogs and neighbourhood to suffer.

In any case it is not management, it is negligence and cruelty to animals and serious health risk to all neighbourhood. Chronic stress is a major contributor to sleep problem, to productivity loss, irritability and road crashes as well as immunity weakness and illness including cancers and also what was recently published, scientists have shown beyond any doubt that chronic stress cause brain cells to die.

All that is absolutely unnecessary and it shows a corruption because government allocate and consume lots of public money yet fail to deliver. It is corruption because it fails in principle to manage rather than mismanage anything they have responsibility and here is dog issue.

Some time ago the current lord Mayor came to see the problem herself and she did absolutely nothing to improve the situation for years she is in highest position.

The mentally ill owner of two noisy dogs was told by the council inspector to make his dogs quiet because they literally chased the neighbour away, he had to sleep in friends place because the dogs were barking non stop for about 3 days. The mentally ill owner got shock from hearing the complaint and called the ambulance and got taken on stretches to hospital for 24 hours. Dogs were left locked inside alone and were barking all that time. The council officially stated afterwards that one has no knowledge of any problem with dogs there.

Can they behave in more insane way?

Same mentally ill dog owner lately called police twice in one night including after midnight accusing his neighbour for deliberately provoking the dogs. Police while visiting the neighbour immediately suggested to complain the next morning to the council as the owner is known to police for years to have inability to control his dogs and in fabricating stories.

This is also not an evidence to TTG council that the owner is not fit to have the dogs nor care for them as he cannot care for himself.

Lately the manager Chris Buckley and Craig Hicks  have blamed the state for lack of legislation allowing council to act in powerful manner.

The Customer service Co ordinator Ross O’Callaghan received the video evidence and briefing that it is mismanagement, negligence, cruelty and health risk and nuisance to neighbours. There is no reaction from her nor from the council.

The CEO Di Rogowski of the council refused to make and appointment to hear the problem.

The Lord Mayor Miriam Smith also for over a week made no appointment to face the situation

Is it a management or mismanagement and corruption?

27/4/10  After a week of waiting for an interview with Lord Mayor, I have paid a visit to the office to ask for the interview. Instead (as usually) Mr Craig Hicks came and promised to reply. Here is his reply.

Dear Mr (personal details omitted)

I am aware that you have an issue with an alleged barking dog at XX. As per previous conversations I would request that you follow the process as set down for all complaints of this type,

and that is that you fill in a “barking dog diary”. This is a process which Council has used for a number of years. We are obliged to treat all complaints using a similar process and therefore in your instance we require you to follow this process.

Following your telephone call on 19 April complaining that the dog was barking at that time, a Council officer attended XX at 9.09am and remained in the street for a period of approximately 1 hour. He

deliberately slammed the door of the car, the boot etc to see if the dogs would react. They did not react. During the initial time at the house ie the first 30 minutes he did not notice anything unusual as the dogs were not barking. He also did a door knock of local residents which revealed that there was not an issue for them regarding the dog at XX. When he was conducting the door knock the dogs did bark off and on but this is not unusual given that he was knocking on doors near by.

One person who said that they might have complained noted that that over the last 3-4 weeks the dogs had improved and it was not an issue for them.

I also understand that you have an issue with other dogs in the area namely YYY which is some considerable distance (approx 100 metres in a straight line) from your home in Arthur Street.

With regard to this latest complaint I again need to request that you complete a barking dog diary before Council will take further action.

CRAIG HICKMAN

Manager, Development & Compliance

City of Tea Tree Gully

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Mr Hicks,

I paid a visit to the council to check why for a week the Lord Meyor have not informed me when she want to have a short interview with me. You instead saw me and gave reply instead securing the interview.

Your reply is nothing but an excuse of inaction. It is irrational approach. You say in your email to me that there is an allegation that dog at XX is barking… How can you say so when you have a video evidence for that?

Mr Hicks, it is illogical of what you do and the TTG council. You collectively do absolutely nothing to prevent such problems and now you dare to say that it is alleged… You dare to say that it is alleged but verbally you say that you have no power to act because the state does not provide with right legislation.

Further you request me to do the barking diary. It is insane to make such request. It is only to make sure no dog management is to be done. You are paid to manage and you do the barking diary if you believe it make sense. Also do add to insanity of such idea, please acknowledge that the problem is a problem for neighbourhood and for the dogs themselves. It is insane to allow such cruelty and negligence to the dog for any length of time and you want weeks of that. By the way you dirty tricks have no end. In the past you simply rejected such barking diary. Barking diary, stupid invented and stupid will do it.

You state that on 19th of April the inspector came over and observed the dog for an hour and nothing happened. What you want to say by that? Have you seen the video given to Ross O’Callahan showing hours of barking? And similar evidence on other occasions? Isn’t it sufficient? If not, than I suggest, let the inspector spend whole week there.

Door knocking is doomed to fail from the start. Only two factors may explain that. Every second house hold does have a dog. No neighbour usually want to say anything against their neighbour. And there are surely many other factors.

Well Mr Hicks when your council have instructed the emergency number attendant not to take reports of barking dogs at midnight or even after 1am, than please give me your phone number, I ring you when it happen, come immediately and witness your self. Well the 9pm to 1:30am barking non stop if you allege that you have no evidence that this is cruelty and negligence, than I do not want to communicate with you any more. And regardless of your believes, you have done nothing, I mean nothing to ensure this is unlikely. It is an offence to refer to my report as an allegation while you have done absolutely nothing to ensure it is unlikely. Have you checked with dog psychologist? Have you checked if the dog is well cared and exercised? And so on and on.

Mr Hicks, another nonsense what you say regarding the next dog you mention. What any distance has do do with dog management? Are you trying to say that you have no idea what dog management does mean?

It is irrelevant where I live and where the dog is kept. If I witness number of times and for a period of time that dog is neglected, this is is an issue and not where I live.

Be sensible and concentrate on dog management.

This is not personal but public issue and please learn that this is made available for public knowledge along with whole council. It is to stamp out the corruption. Yes the public will evaluate you performance as a team and individually.

As it stand, the TTG has no policy, nor working mechanism to manage effectively the dogs and their owners. As I suggested, if you have not enough power, rules or legislations, rather than to deceive public, please request the state to allow you the necessary power.

I still insist to see the Lord Mayor and please know that it is unprofessional nor fair to refuse me for what I request. I only want a few minutes to let her know about the situation.

As I read your message and write this reply, all doors and windows must be closed because one of the dogs mentioned by you is barking for number of hours. I do not care if your inspector is there or not.

I attach the document what RSPCA propose for non responsible dog owners who do not take dog for a walk at least 3 times a day.

Thanks

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http://www.gympietimes.com.au/story/2009/12/05/rspca-proposal-mandates-dog-walking/

Walk the dog or face a fine: RSPCA

5th December 2009

RADICAL new laws being proposed by the RSPCA could punish dog owners for not walking their pets.

Under the legislation, they would have to regularly exercise dogs, ensure animals are not kept chained up and give their pets adequate food and water, News Ltd newspapers say.

If the proposal became law, dog and cat owners across Australia would face prosecution and fines of up to $12,000 for animal cruelty, and magistrates could consider jail in extreme circumstances.

Dr Hugh Wirth, head of RSPCA Victoria, is one of four experts the Federal Department of Agriculture’s welfare division has appointed to draft national animal welfare guidelines.

“The draft will tell people what they have to do rather than what they want to do,” Dr Wirth said. “The new standards would be regulatory, therefore a breach of the standards is a breach of the law.”

The proposed new laws are designed to formalise the national code, which states dogs must be walked at least once a day.

Dr Wirth said jail sentences would not be handed out for a first offence, but it would something available for magistrates to consider.

The proposed laws would be designed to help overcome the problems animal inspectors have had penalising bad owners. The working party is designed to create a national standard, but ultimately the laws would be have to be passed by state governments.

Corrupt mean broken, malfunctioning and often they are that way due to ill intentions of management and politics. Monetary gains are often also involved.

Here I want to say that I as most people thought that universities are the institutions helping the nation to discover the truth, to educate citizens in truth and to lead through an example. Everything nobel should find it’s place at universities. What I discovered that universities have less and less in common with truth, with objectivity, with serving the nation but more to do with aggression, with corruption, waste of public money, nonsense and anti-social practices.

I’ve discovered that all that is possible due to corrupt government which allow and protect universities which are uncontrollable and one may say beyond the law.

A few years from now I’ve made an interview with a senior lecturer at Adelaide Uni. Came to the reception desk and was led to the office of the staff in concern. He asked me about my name (did not know with whom he is having an interview???) and then if I am a student of this uni. When he heard that I am not a student, he immediately exploded and started to abuse me, shouting that I am a liar and picked a phone to call security saying loudly what he is doing. I simply and calmly asked him: what are you doing and why?

He stood frozen for a moment and dropped receiver and started to justify himself. His justification was uncomprehensible and he shouted and waved his arms near me. I assessed that he is irrational and likely mentally deranged and may hurt me, so I without a word turned on my heal and started to walk out. I turned to a general reception to complain on his abuse and also to inform that he is mentally deranged. He caught me in the reception and started to shout loudly humiliating me and expelling me out. I immediately entered the security office on campus and reported to the senior security officer. The officer despite promise was not interested in the abuse but in who I am and recorded whole interview on video tape. He promised to investigate thoroughly and let me know on result. I made it clear that I want an apology and sorting out with mental state of the offending staff.

Number of weeks passed and nobody contacted me. When I enquired the security, the very senior staff who interviewed me, told me that the case is closed and the tape disappeared.

I contacted the vice chancellor with complaint but she replied that there was nothing wrong done by any of her staff and that she dismiss the case.

I contacted police but they refused to take a report of abuse and insult because university is under special privilege of the parliament. The Minister Jane Lomax Smith also ignored everything.

Let me conclude. Adelaide Uni, employ the mentally unstable staff which is aggressive. Uni denies natural justice and acts in most unprofessional manner. The uni security is ordered to support this corruption rather than to be objective and seek the peace and order. I mean if lecturer offend, abuse or otherwise attack the student it is ok.  The SA government clearly sets the system to be corrupt and universities to be beyond the law.  Well now I have right to declare that Adelaide Uni is a place of aggression, mental derangement, injustice and corruption.

Mike Rann also support the above.

A few months ago in my quest for improving road safety, I found that Adelaide University has a Road Safety Research unit and also I found that it is corrupt. I tried to contact the head of the unit but she was very unapproachable and unwilling to cooperate. Namely I found that the published papers contain gossip in place of specific results of study. I wanted to inform the management that this looks like wasting of public money and hence corruption because their waste of money does not contribute to road safety.

Assuming that such a study would be complex and expensive I actually devised and conducted my own study and produced accurate results.  http://roadsafetyunofficial.wordpress.com/my-research-on-tailgating/ I offered my results and method for free to the uni but they refused to acknowledge and turned ugly. Complaining to ever higher management, finally I’ve received a response from the vice chancellor accusing me of things I’ve not done. The previous his letter was prommising that he will conduct a proper investigation according to a natural justice. He used a fabrication and closed the matter without any means to reply.

I have to clearly state that the secretary of the second in ranking manager have acted in similarly irrational manner as above described. When she saw me in a corridor heading towards her counter she shouted to me that I have to leave this room immediately or she call the security.  Let me explain that I was just walking and intended to ask her of something. She did not greeted me, nor asked of the reason of my visit but instead simply tried to intimidate me.  Later they have accused me of misbehavior.

Now let me conclude this incident.  My issue was an allegation that university engage in wide spread corruption.  Management have done everything not to see me. They have tried and did offended and abused me. They lied and fabricated story about my misbehaviour. They abuse their power.  The vice chancellor lies and refuse the natural justice and cuts our unilaterally any way of communication.

Overall, it does definitely mean that they are aware of the corruption and they want to cover it up.  Government is also supporting this corruption and aggression. Well in this case the matter initially was a public safety on the roads. The whole story indicate that government is determined not to improve road safety on our roads.

The problem is that it does not exist yet for some time to come. How could I buy such a non existing  thing? I reasoned (now I know wrongly) that most gadgets today is produced in China these days and it is possible to get a pre-release or with a minor problem like speed or something. And as usually you expect to buy cheaper in China.

Buying through an internet and paying with paypal  gave me a false sense of security. Here it is how it happened in brief.

Seeking on internet a large and cheap memory stick I found the Chineese equivalent of ebay, the Tootoomart. They advertised a monster 500GB at very attractive price in lots of 10. I decided to buy. What came was as shown a thing used to be a small and obsolete memory stick rigged by the programmer to fool the system that it is large. So when you plug in the computer it shows 360GB but it holds nothing.  It is perfectly non functional thing. One thing it does, it shows it’s fake memory. It does not even store you 1kB and an attempt crashes computer. I immediately requested Tootoomart to stop selling them and advertising them and to refund what I paid. They pointed to the Chinese seller who admitted fraud by offering to repay me partially and I refused. Tootoomart continue selling those fake things and advertising them. Now it is clear that both the fraudulant seller and Tootoomart do open fraud. I have notified Chineese officials and this caused one spam but polite. The Chinese government have passed my email to a prospecting business and they sent me a spam.

Than I turned to Kingston which confirmed that such devices do not exist but they have done nothing to stop a fraud which use their name. It seems somewhat as Kingston would not mind that China use the Kingston label on fake devices.

Next thing was more serious, I turned to paypal to refund my money and demand Tootoomart stop selling and advertising fake things in an open fraud. Paypal showed me their back. Paypal does not care if the fraud is done using their financial system. Therefore the fraud is possible thanks to financial help of Paypal.

I argue that myself and potentially number of people would not decided to buy a fraudulant things if Paypal would not offer it’s “secure” services.

I then contacted Australian federal politicians and they help nothing, they have not even tried. Does Australian Federal Government support Chineese fraud? Yes, one does.

That’s not the end of the saga. The Tootoomart keeps spaming me and no minister in China nor in Australia care to change it.

Let me show the problem in different way.

The thief have robbed you and than spam you with the products one stole. You cannot stop or block but see them everyday. You contact police only to learn that police gave lift to the thief, you contact the bank which ignore you and count the money the thief bring them in. You contact politicians and they do not have to answer or they cannot do anything. At the end of the day, you happily enjoy the vied of goods you used to own and now are offered to you at low price.

This is happening in democratic Australia, this is happening in the name of Globalisation  and transparency.

This is only possible if society allow that.

Soon I may include the names and specifics of the politicians and other officials taking part in this saga.