Merri-bek deputy mayor calls for re-evaluation of demerit points system

0:00Dave Roberts here. There you are surrounded by fans, sharing wings, sharing drinks, high-fiving random strangers. Everybody remembers the game. Nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later. At 2 a.m., you wake up with the fever and your throats on fire. Now what? Urgent care, clothes, ER, slam, telehealth, maybe, but the pharmacy's clothes. You needed a medical emergency kit. These aren't first aid kits. They contain essential prescriptions used for over 30 common conditions. Sinus and ear infection, UTI, stomach bug, travelers diarrhea, and more. On hand before you need them. Use your doctor-developed guidebook to select the right prescription or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. It's like an urgent care and drugstore at home. When you're sick, traveling or stranded, you'll wish you ordered a medical emergency kit. Order online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with my promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. That's promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. Right our next guest is a semi-regular

1:03makes me regular appearances on this program. Two-time former mayor and deputy mayor at Merribeck, formerly Mollon Council. At the upcoming state election he's going to be running for the seat of Isenddon. Oscar Yilders, good morning. Good morning, Tom. Are you running for a party or is it independent? At an independent. Okay. And Eston is the seat next to the the premier seat, needry isn't it? Right on the boundary. Yeah. So there's there's almost streets that are right literally next to each other. So a lot of people think I'm running in needry but no I'm running in in the seat right next to his. And look I read part of your platforms today. You want to increase the number of numeric points that one could accumulate. I never know. Do we start with 12 and work our way down or do we get that we get the numeric points we work our way up. You want to increase for a full loss this whole number of numeric points from 12 to 18 is that correct? That's correct Tom. I mean our cars have changed Tom. We've got electric cars now. Our roads have changed. Technology has changed and enforcement has changed as well. I mean back in

2:061970 when they invented this or they established this system there were no traffic cameras. There was only 1.3 million vehicles on the roads. Now there's 4.3 million more. In fact 5.6 million vehicles on our roads. I mean we're in the dark ages. I mean we need to move with the times. I mean everywhere you turn Tom you're getting you're getting fine or booked by a camera. I mean it needs to be at least 18. There needs to be a balance and even for the P-players that needs to increase to 9 points because they're new drivers and they're going to make mistakes. But for them to lose potentially get two fines and lose their license for three months and not be able to go to TAE4 or to their apprenticeship or to uni or even to high school. I think it's pretty good. Yeah because I mean there's another type of camera we now have. We have those ones that are high up that they're looking inside the car to see if you're wearing your seat belt or filling with your phone. And like for example I've got this like a lot of modern cars. My car is a wireless charging but it's fiddly and I'll put the phone on it but then if the car goes over a bump and the phone

3:10stops charging and the problem is I think oh am I allowed to just put the phone back on the charge. No I'm not. I can't touch it because if I do it's three dimmer at points and $600. So just for adjusting the charging of your phone. So all right so what you're saying is we thanks to all these cameras and speed detectors and so forth. We're far more likely to get dimmer at points. Hence we should have a few more to lose. Absolutely and it's actually four points on. If you get caught with your phone on the law it's four. So you get three of those. You've just lost your license for three months and you think about the tradies, the curia drivers, the small business owners, the truck drivers, the motorcycle riders. I mean losing a license could be potential in losing your livelihood. They rely on their licenses to keep their businesses going. I mean people are struggling financially now Tom. If anything that dimmer at point system there's a total review. There's an overhaul. I mean 55 years ago we haven't no one's thought of this in the last 55 years. We've got all these ministers that are in charge of transport and

4:12why you didn't come up with this seriously. I mean it's ridiculous. It's actually a joke. I mean no other state would allow this. No it's interesting. In most American states, though I know dimmer at points. So you just if you get caught doing something you pay a fine and that's it you pay the fine and away you go. So I mean I don't know if the dimmer at points are unique to Victoria. I don't think they are. But our system as you say is particularly harsh on people who commit minor breaches of the law. Exactly. But in terms of the dangerous drivers or the drink drivers and the drug effect the drivers, the reckless drivers, Tom throw the book at them. But for the average mum and dad that's trying to you know, trying to put them on the table to not be able to have your vehicle means that you lose your job. And last year just so you may not know this but our courts were clogged with more than 40,000 traffic related offenses. So you think about it. The court systems clogged our judges should be really there for serious offenses. Not

5:17some of these petty offenses because someone's a crude 12-demaripotent so they've lost their lives. I mean it's ridiculous. Well I think a lot of people would vote for you. Is this your main policy or have you got another one that you like as well? No I've got a couple there's more coming. I've put everything on my social media. I've got some pretty good ideas. I don't have a campaign team. I don't have a manager who's managing me. These are just ideas that I come up with myself. And I think the people that live in the set of estimates have definitely had enough. I'm sitting here in the car in Eastern and Fields and there are two officers scanning, sheriff officer scanning and they're clamping. Tired as I'm speaking to you right now in front of me. They're clamping a car. So they're going around and because someone hasn't paid their parking fund because they can't afford to pay or they've lost their lives. Or they've changed address and they don't even know they've had to fight. True that's another thing too. And I think I think the system I mean 1.9 million dollars the states making every day from these farms at about 13.3 million a week. But where's the money going? Is it going back into educating?

6:22The people ate us. Is it really going back into fixing our 500,000 potholes? I don't think so. Well good point. Thank you Oscar. Good luck. Oscar Yilders there. Two-time former Mayor and Deputy Mayor Mary Beck formerly Maul and Council. Now running as an independent for the state seat of Isndan. Look I said I mean look you can call it populace but offering to give people the chance to or you don't lose your life. So until you get to 18, the Mayor points rather than 12. Who wouldn't like that as an idea? Apart from the politicians in Springstreet who love the money. Dave Roberts here. There you are surrounded by fans, sharing wings, sharing drinks, high-fiving random strangers. Everybody remembers the game. Nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later. At 2am you wake up with the fever and your throats on fire. Now what? Urgent care, clothes, ER, slam, telehealth, maybe but the pharmacy's clothes. You needed a medical emergency kit. These aren't first aid kits. They contain essential prescriptions used for over 30

7:22common conditions. Sinus and ear infection, UTIs, stomach bug, travelers diarrhea and more. On hand before you need them. Use your doctor-developed guidebook to select the right prescription or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. It's like an urgent care and drug store at home. When you're sick, traveling or stranded, you'll wish you ordered a medical emergency kit. Order online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with my promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. That's promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue.