13 September 2012

Tackling the red tape at two minutes to midnight (Rego stickers too much like tape)

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It’s a bit of an eyebrow raiser when an 12 year old government with one day left to the caretaker period announces a review of red tape.

Economic Development Minister Andrew Barr and Attorney-General Simon Corbell today issued the first reforms to come out of the ACT Government’s Red Tape Reduction Panel.

The Government will be:

  • developing a new business feedback mechanism on red tape, to be delivered through Canberra Connect via a new online “fix my red tape” reporting capability;
  • abolishing motor vehicle registration stickers; and
  • providing for the e-lodgement of rental bonds.

We will also be undertaking several reviews across Government that will lead to a reduced compliance burden on businesses in the ACT. These reviews will focus on:

  • licence terms – with a view to moving away from annual renewals (needed by, for example, motor vehicle repairers) wherever possible, towards longer licence terms;
  • police check requirements – with a view to minimising the need for multiple police checks at the same point in time; and
  • signage requirements for businesses – with a particular focus on streamlining administrative requirements, such as the requirement to display registration/licence certificates.


UPDATE 13/09/12 09:40: Andrew Barr has tweeted in reply:

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devils_advocate said :

I like rego stickers. Makes it easier for me to check when the regos on my various cars are due.

You do realise the government sends out renewal notices. That kinda makes it easy too. Unless of course you don’t live at the address where the car is registered.

Truthiness said :

South Australia has already done away with rego stickers, the downside is getting constantly pulled over as soon as you leave the state

South Australia has also done away with the thin plastic shopping bags too! But fear not about being pulled over other states too are going rego stickerless including NSW and I beleive WA has or is about to do the same too.

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd8:25 am 15 Sep 12

PantsMan said :

What an absolute joke! Signage requirements for business – WTF? We’ll be the next Silicone Valley after the government reviews the signage that they have forced businesses to display.
Is this the same Government that has:
* banned plastic bags after the Productivity Commission found that a ban would not have a positive cost benefit ratio;
* banned smoking in cars with children; and
* banned smoking in outdoor eating areas?
Andrew Barr is a knob.

Do you honestly take issue with both those smoking bans?

On the subject of rego stickers, I like them for the comedy value. I parked next to a car last week that was 6 months over due.

My mate lives in a complex & there’s that sometimes parks in the guest parking space. The rego sticker on it is green (2011 sticker).

No idea how people get away with it?

Holden Caulfield said :

krats said :

Rego Stickers And Politicians Should Be Banned From June 2013,As Both Are A Waste Of Time.

So are initial caps on every word of a sentence, quite literally in fact, but that didn’t stop you.

Welcome Back Kratz.

I Like Trolls Who Go The Extra Mile For Their Art.

devils_advocate said :

I like rego stickers. Makes it easier for me to check when the regos on my various cars are due.

Well you could always stick a post it note on your windscreen (or your forehead) to remind you.

devils_advocate said :

I like rego stickers. Makes it easier for me to check when the regos on my various cars are due.

True. But for the last ten (ish – I don’t really know) I’ve been paying my rego on the intertubes – the second the transaction is processed they take my money, the car is registered and covered by insurance *but* if I drive it without a little bit of plastic stuck correctly to the glass I could get fined.

It became doubly silly once they brought in the RAPID system, since it checks rego without a care in the world for the sticker.

devils_advocate said :

I like rego stickers. Makes it easier for me to check when the regos on my various cars are due.

Might I suggest a wonderful innovation known as a electronic calendar. iCal, Google Calendar, etc

krats said :

Rego Stickers And Politicians Should Be Banned From June 2013,As Both Are A Waste Of Time.

i hAVEN’T mISSED yOU oNE bIT kRATS…

devils_advocate10:50 am 14 Sep 12

I like rego stickers. Makes it easier for me to check when the regos on my various cars are due.

Holden Caulfield10:05 am 14 Sep 12

krats said :

Rego Stickers And Politicians Should Be Banned From June 2013,As Both Are A Waste Of Time.

So are initial caps on every word of a sentence, quite literally in fact, but that didn’t stop you.

pathvego said :

rhino said :

It would be annoying to be pulled over in NSW etc a lot, but I think they’d get used to it after a while and leave ACT platers alone.

NSW has already decided to get rid of rego stickers from 1st January 2013

http://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/making-life-easier-nsw-abolish-registration-stickers-cars

Oh I didn’t realise. That works out well for us then.

Rego Stickers And Politicians Should Be Banned From June 2013,As Both Are A Waste Of Time.

No Rego Stickers? No Worries..

This was always expected after NSW abolished Rego Stickers from 1 Jan 2013.

Here is the Free App to your rescue.

http://www.irego.com.au/free-rego-check-app-for-iphone-android.php

So I will no longer receive a rego label with my rego renewal, as a result of reducing red tape.

But I will lay money that I will still have to attend a shopfront and present the rego papers to get my ‘free’ 10 minute loading zone ticket, covered by the extra fees payable for business vehicles.

No way could Govco include this card with the original rego, or post it out once advised that it was warranted.

My contempt for this pack of germ breaders has only increased.

Masquara said :

“The government will” …. err, Barr, that should be preceded with “If elected”.

I thought he was just being honest, that regardless of who gets elected, these measures (which mirror those interstate and are just logical improvements) would go ahead.

shirty_bear said :

Have elections in this country always smelled of desperation?

It’s pretty much a universal phenomenon.

“The government will” …. err, Barr, that should be preceded with “If elected”.

rhino said :

It would be annoying to be pulled over in NSW etc a lot, but I think they’d get used to it after a while and leave ACT platers alone.

huh?

http://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/making-life-easier-nsw-abolish-registration-stickers-cars

rhino said :

It would be annoying to be pulled over in NSW etc a lot, but I think they’d get used to it after a while and leave ACT platers alone.

NSW has already decided to get rid of rego stickers from 1st January 2013

http://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/making-life-easier-nsw-abolish-registration-stickers-cars

Getting rid of rego stickers could save us some money at least. It would be annoying to be pulled over in NSW etc a lot, but I think they’d get used to it after a while and leave ACT platers alone. But then again they could do it if they don’t like canberrans and claim ignorance. I’ve heard a lot of other states hate canberrans haha.

I’m all for reducing red tape as that is one of my pet peeves. So I’m both excited that this is being raised, but also not very hopeful that it will actually result in anything useful being done.

South Australia has already done away with rego stickers, the downside is getting constantly pulled over as soon as you leave the state

What an absolute joke! Signage requirements for business – WTF? We’ll be the next Silicone Valley after the government reviews the signage that they have forced businesses to display.
Is this the same Government that has:
* banned plastic bags after the Productivity Commission found that a ban would not have a positive cost benefit ratio;
* banned smoking in cars with children; and
* banned smoking in outdoor eating areas?
Andrew Barr is a knob.

I have wondered for years why we still have rego stickers.

Have elections in this country always smelled of desperation?

Serious question – was it always this way and I just didn’t notice? Or is this the race to the bottom I keep hearing about? Seems to me it began around the Howard era, but that co-incides with me developing some level of awareness.

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