[Kieron]

Originally Posted by noflac52

Again all of those criteria are very subjective and subject to interpretation. I have personal experience where determining factors were hard to define so were put down in reports as speeding to save a lot of time and paperwork.

Statistics are only as good as the initial information allows them to be and are also subject to the interpretation that the compiler has and wants them to project.

Government have a vested financial interest in compiling statistics to support their assertions that this is effective road safety initiative.

How exactly does this financial vested interest work?

A classic example of Government manipulating things to suit their views is the republic referendum. A republic that no-one wanted was concocted by government at the time and was the only one that the public were allowed to vote for. It was defeated but now if the subject comes up they state that we had a referendum for that and the public voted against it with out any mention that there was never a free vote for or against Australia becoming a republic without strings attached to the vote!

The same thing is done here with road safety statistics.

And this is backed fact or just your opinion?

I didn't respond to the question about spending of revenue as it was a leading question as evidenced by the answers you provided yourself as being possibly representative of the respondents. You are wrong by the way. I don't think that there are many people on here that are that dumb.

Do you know all the pro 'revenue raisers' thoughts or are you just guessing?

It looks kind of stupid when you answer your own questions with what you think the respondents would say. A bit condescending I think.

Think of it what you will, I don't really care. However, the reason why I answered my own question (with fact) is because some of you blokes effuse this 'revenue raising' line but don't provide any fact to back it. So yes, it was a leading question if you like and the fact that you saw it like that leads me to believe you knew your belief is flawed otherwise you could have come back at me to prove me wrong.

So, given that we now know that revenue raised from QLD's cameras is pumped into road safety awareness programs, accident rehab and black spots in QLD, is it still revenue raising?