Should Australia adopt the New Zealand demerit points system-for/against?

Question

This is definetly one that will have 2 sides, personally I think yes we should and do it as a country because we have too many deaths on our roads nationally, I will admit I have been done for speeding and a couple of other things by police in Tasmania and as a result of our state road toll there's talk about introducing the NZ system where if you get more than 100 points in 2 years you automatically loose your licence for 3 months, though we cant stop there we need to also get defect cars off the roads of this country, give people incentives to upgrade there cars, green stickers for defect notices which gives 28 days to fix or pink sticker, impouded for 28 days.....I like the idea but am unsure of what people with less income would think of the plan...

so my question is should Australia as a country look at adopting the New Zealand demerit points system, why or why not??

Mitch
northern Tasmania

Answer 1

Look, there are so many hoons and idiots on Australian roads that I doubt if it would matter to the younger groups as some of them think they would never be caught and some I know that have been caught have done the same thing over when they got their liecences back. Maybe it would matter to the older ones. I have a friend who drinks drives all the damn time in Perth. He is 51 and has never been caught, I wish he would be caught and lose his liecence before he hurts or kills someone.
It would be a nice thought that all people would get their head out of their butt and wake up to themselves.

Answer 2

WA has 12 demerits and you get them back after 5 years my question is how is this still failing along with the anti-hoon laws the number of deaths this year has been higher this year than all of last year and it is before christmas!