Letter to the Editor
Pay attention up. I’m not scripting this for the well mannered individuals within the newsrooms. I’m scripting this for the blokes and sheilas within the backblocks, those who really pay the payments whereas the fits in Canberra goal your youngsters for intercourse modifications.
We’re handing over practically 50% of each hard-earned greenback to this authorities, and what will we get? Bugger all. We get a bunch of toothless tigers on the Workplace of Truthful Buying and selling & ACCC who wouldn’t know a defect discover if it bit them on the arse. We get authorities departments filled with drongos who couldn’t change a bloody automobile tyre if their life relied on it, but they’re sitting in air-conditioned places of work telling us all about local weather change.
The “Overview Website” rip-off is a lie
Right here’s the reality: You’ll be able to’t belief a five-star evaluate on a $70,000 rig if it’s written the day you picked it up. It’s a load of crap.
Sellers are handing out free awnings for caravans, motor covers for boats, gas playing cards for 4x4s, and “handover bonuses” simply to get you to click on “5 Stars” earlier than you’ve even left the automobile park. That’s not a evaluate. That’s a bribe.
You suppose your rig is strong? You haven’t hit the corrugations of the Peninsula Improvement Highway. You haven’t camped within the rain on the Cape. You haven’t tried to repair a leaking roof whereas the water is dripping in your face.
Right here’s the kicker: If a 6-month evaluate ban was in place for autos over $20k, it might be higher for everybody. It provides the bloke promoting the rig a good go to repair the stuff-ups and enhance high quality. It provides the client an opportunity to see if the factor really holds collectively. It forces producers & companies to make good as an alternative of operating away.
However guess what? If that occurred, the toothless tigers on the ACCC & Workplace of Truthful Buying and selling could be out of date. Their jobs would vanish as a result of they wouldn’t have to be there to “police” a system that truly works. They’re solely there to guard the established order, to maintain the cash flowing to the lobbyists.
The insurance coverage “Center Finger”
And don’t get me began on the insurance coverage firms. You’ve paid premiums for years. You’ve been a superb bloke. You’ve adopted the principles.
Then one thing breaks. A roof leaks. A chassis snaps. A photo voltaic system dies in the midst of the bush.
You name them up. You say, “I want to say.”
“Sorry mate, that’s put on and tear.” Or, “That’s a producing defect, go to the seller.” However the seller says, “Guarantee denied.”
So now you’re caught. Stranded. 1000’s of {dollars} down the drain. And the insurance coverage firm is supplying you with the center finger.
The “Unroadworthy” Nightmare
We see it right here in Cape York each week. Model-new rigs on the again of tow vans. Households who’ve bought their houses, borrowed the cash, and are actually instructed by frigging cops & mermaids that their van is unroadworthy.
And the federal government? They’re too busy with their very own agenda to care. They’d quite change your youngsters intercourse than change a coverage that will really assist the common Aussie.
The Repair? Easy.
1. Cease the Faux Evaluations: Impose a 6-month ready interval for any evaluate on a automobile over $20k. No exceptions. Should you haven’t lived with it, you’ll be able to’t evaluate it.
2. Cease the Bribes: If a seller is caught paying for critiques, ban them. No extra “evaluate for a free awning.”
3. Insurance coverage Reform: Insurance coverage firms must cease hiding behind nice print. Should you’ve paid premiums for years, you should be lined when issues go unsuitable.
4. Scrap the Lobbyists: We have to cease the drongos who hand around in the dunnys in Parliament Home, licking their lips and dusting off their knee caps, whereas they promote us out. They’re those pulling the strings, retaining the Truthful Buying and selling workplace & ACCC clowns in a job.
Why This Issues
Aussies love the bush. We like to journey. We like to discover. However we will’t afford to be ripped off. We will’t afford to be instructed to “f*** off” by insurance coverage firms once we’ve paid for years. We will’t afford to be lied to by evaluate websites on the web, perhaps that different clown “Inman Grant” the eSafety Commissioner who’s fixated in your youngsters, might she assist us adults too? FAT CHANCE
It’s time to cease the BS. It’s time to shrink the federal government. It’s time to get truthful dinkum.
Jason Clark
Cape York Peninsula
