If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat
If you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet
Their next election will be interesting...................
Governments going insane with their Dictatorships
Kinda like being in prison for citizens!! People need to stand up and vote this BS out of government!
It will like dry counties and cities in the southern U.S. where residents get into their cars and drive to where they can get alcohol. All that that this will do is kill the auto repair businesses in that ridiculous town.
This is has been a trending subject in Australia.
When I was visiting in New South Wales, there were proposals requiring a permit to repair vehicles. Any vehicles.
There was also a proposal to ban the sale of automotive parts to anyone who did not have a permit.
This is the administrative state (Nanny state) gone nuts.
No longer a citizen with rights, you become a subject only allowed to do what is permited. All else becomes forbidden.
It is part of the problem of the urbanization of populations. They become accustomed to live highly regulated lives, dependent on the government to provide most things and regulating most activity.
“A government can only do to the people of any country what the people of that country are willing to allow done to them” L.Star
A perfect plan...if your goal is to drive people out of your city.
If US auto makers had their way; this would be in effect here in the US. No parts or service would be available on your car except through a licensed dealer.
States are pushing back with Right to Repair Laws.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/do-some-car-manufacturers-want-CiniX78jQda.YIPzlPfHHA
Every time I hear about something really stupid in Australia it always seems to be happening in Victoria.
You can bet that the local eco-thugs are delighted to have been provided a list of those they will investigate for potential violations.
“It contradicts the core principle of private property rights, under which we should have the right to use our land as we see fit without governmental intervention, as long as we aren’t causing harm or nuisance to others.
While I am sympathetic with people who work on cars (I'm doing a frame-up build on an old Dodge Power Wagon now), it is true that a collection of junk cars visible from the public roadway does adversely affect surrounding property values. It is therefore likely that these regulations arose from complaints by neighboring busybodies. So I dont' see enough information here about what the problem was that led to such draconian measures that seem to exceed reasonable levels of constraint.
A city behaving like a crazy HOA.
I don’t what the Constitution of Australia says, but in my American few the new regulation by the Australian city constitutes a “taking” of property and the stated of goal of the regulation, the very specious and subjective “amenity of the area” is like carte blanche for the local governments control of private property. If they can get away with that regulation they can get away with anything.
Soon they’ll have the Japanese model where they charge you $2k for a mandatory mechanic check while barring all non-mechanics from working on cars.
They have gone completely insane.
Australia has somehow transformed into some sort of authoritarian left-wing hell-hole.
Close the garage door when you change the oil?
Australia is turning into one big punitive controlling Homeowners Association.
I suspect too many oil changes in too many apartment complex parking lots were getting done.
‘Cheap’ labor can’t afford to do things in middle class fashion.
Y’all can fix this if you have the nerve. If you ask the government for permission to change your own oil you probably don’t have the nerve.