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The solution to ineffective regulation is not more regulation. :eek: India tried that in the 1980's. It crippled the whole country. Only after 1991 when they got rid of all sort of useless regulation did things started moving and the country started to get out of poverty. Regulation is not...

So you really think that there is a higher percentage Australians doing it, despite it being illegal, than in Holland, where it is legal? :confused:

Yet another post using scare tactics along the same lines "We can't let Joe Public change a light switch, they will kill themselves." The only problem with this argument is that it doesn't match reality. How do you explain that, with all this regulation, Australia has one of the highest...

There is so much regulation these days that most people have done something illegal in their lives without being aware of it. I know of some crooks who have found legal ways to rip people off. When caught, their defense is that they didn't do anything illegal. That doesn't give me much...

Very true. The bureaucrats like to use such scare tactics to subdue people into accepting their regulation without questioning it. It kills off any rational debate pretty quickly. Yet, if we have one of the highest level of electrical fatalities in the world, what exactly have we gained...

The bureaucrats here are experts at using fear to justify their never-ending streams of regulations. Few people people dare to question them. We are far too docile as citizens, letting the govt tell us what to, without any evidence that the proven benefits are greater than the burden of...

Australia is a bit of an over-regulated country unfortunately. It's a bit of a shock for many foreigners coming here. Cheers,