Making a Move

They were driving a red car, a white car and a grey 4WD 🙂

Some good points, especially re car rego being more expensive here. I still think they should change their electoral enrolment – then again, I can see the appeal of being enrolled in a marginal seat so your vote actually counts.

what sort of cars do the raiders blokes drive?

I’m from Perth (over here for a while) and in Perth it costs me $191.50 to register my car and $235 for CTP. A grand total of $426.50 as opposed to the $650+ it would cost me in the ACT….

Over there they charge $14.75 per 100kg for rego of a regular car, plus $20 or so in admin fees.

When we moved, we weren’t sure whether we were staying. (We’re staying in the region but we don’t think we can afford to buy in Canberra – it’ll probably be Yass or Queanbeyan). When I told the ACT rego people this, they refused to transfer my rego, saying it was for permanent residents only (even though we don’t have a NSW home to go back to). NSW said we weren’t entitled to a registration there either, and when I asked then if itinerant Australians weren’t allowed to drive, they said if we could come up with a NSW postal address they’d let us keep our licenses. So that was what we did for a long time (my partner still hasn’t changed his, because he can’t spare his car for the week it would take to get the repairs done to make the transfer). And that meant officially we had no presence in Canberra whatsoever. I’m proud of being a Canberran and I did switch the rego and everything else later, but they don’t make it easy.

I keep telling hubby we should move to SA…but there really isn’t a navy base there. Bugger.

Indeed it is 3 months to change both your licence and registration to the ACT when moving from interstate.

Also astrojax, your car is still registered and insured even if you live in another state and haven’t transferred your registration, as long as the premiums are paid, there’s no conditions from what I can see for residential addresses.

You may be fined for not transferring your rego though, but they would have to prove it, and means catching you twice in more than 3 months and proving you are living in the ACT.

Anyway all the reasons have already stated above why people don’t transfer, basically cost.

Cost of ACT renewal 4 cylinder: $652.60
NSW: $262 + $330 CTP approx: $592
QLD: $251 + 290 CTP approx: $541
VIC (Metro Melb): $575.40
TAS: $518.50
SA: $92 + $382 CTP $474

Now where would you want keep your car registered if you had the means?

I’m the opposite, evening up the odds. except I changed my electoral enrolment, as I want my vote to be one of the most valuable in the country, rather than taken for granted. And now it is.

Anyway, wherever I go, I’m still a Canberran.

astrojax, I’m pretty sure the time period is three months, not two weeks or a month.

The garage of our block of flats is pretty amusing. There’s WA plates, QLD plates, NSW places, VIC plates and ACT plates.

astrojax, try being told by the registration clerk to come back when the rego is due to expire in the following year.

What do you do then ? Follow the instructions of a Government official, or Follow the instructions of the motor traffic regulations ?

apart from all these comments, as far as i am aware, it is in the motor traffic regulations that registration, licence etc must [must] be transferred within a set time (about two weeks, mebbe a month) of becoming a permanent resident.

technically, an insurance co. could nullify a claim if the driver was ‘unlicenced’ and the car ‘unregistered’, which would technically be the case, even though you had paid up in another state. more fool you, then…

but you have to get caught first.

all this talk of ‘inconvenience’ etc. these are the things, up front, you know about that are entailed with vehicle ownership. if they are too onerous, sell the car and catch a bus, or ride a bike.

a tedious conversation, this one. and a predictable one…