Update on the car dooring bill - politicians' speeches attached

[Raili Simojoki]

For anyone who's interested, I attach a word document with the debate
on the car dooring bill from Wednesday (I wanted to link to it, but
part of the parliament website is down). Edward O'Donahue is the
government spokesperson on bikes (the Parliamentary Secretary for
Transport), Jaala Pulford is the Labor spokeperson, Greg Barber is
from the Greens.

The bill was deferred until the next parliamentary sitting week,13
March. It is looking possible that the government may increase the
fine through regulations or refer the bill to a committee. In the
meantime, I encourage you to email
edward.o'don...@parliament.vic.gov.au and tell him that you want the
penalties, as well as enforcement, increased. You might want to take
the opportunity to tell him about any other bike issues you have too.

Cheers - Raili

[ChrisS]

Thanks for that, will add a brief update after playing about 10-11
minutes of the Get Pushy rally, Monday morning 5/3 on YarraBUG Radio
on 3CR.

Val & I will be on air from 10am, the rally audio with Anna Hyland &
Greg Barber should be about 10.10am, 3CR podcasts are up usually by
Tuesday or Wednesday.

Obviously being live audio, there's lots of ambient background noise,
such as cars, trams, birds, dogs & the occasional mobile signal... ;)

How to listen to 3CR: http://www.3cr.org.au/3CR_streaming
YarraBUG Radio: http://www.yarrabug.org/radio/
The podcasts are also available on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/yarrabug/id311379597

cheers,

Chris

On Mar 2, 9:43 am, Raili Simojoki <raili.simoj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For anyone who's interested, I attach a word document with the debate
> on the car dooring bill from Wednesday (I wanted to link to it, but
> part of the parliament website is down). Edward O'Donahue is the
> government spokesperson on bikes (the Parliamentary Secretary for
> Transport), Jaala Pulford is the Labor spokeperson, Greg Barber is
> from the Greens.
>
> The bill was deferred until the next parliamentary sitting week,13
> March. It is looking possible that the government may increase the
> fine through regulations or refer the bill to a committee. In the
> meantime, I encourage you to email

> edward.o'dona...@parliament.vic.gov.au and tell him that you want the

> penalties, as well as enforcement, increased. You might want to take
> the opportunity to tell him about any other bike issues you have too.
>
> Cheers - Raili
>

>  ROAD SAFETY AMENDMENT.doc
> 74KViewDownload

[Raili Simojoki]

That's fantastic, thanks

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