A potential door has been opened

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now those of you who have read some of my other posts on this forum will know how much I dislike A Current Affair, but tonight they actually did something good for a change.

tonight they did a story on some of the problems in our traffic law, namely people still loosing points on charges they have beaten in court, and the fact that members of the public have no right of appeal, yet the RTA has a right to appeal a decision made by the court if a member of the public beats a charge.

now as anyone who knows even a liitle bit about traffic law will know, there are many unfair inadaquacies like this through out the laws, it really is a case of GUILTY UNTILL PROVEN INNOCENT!!! and the rta and the state governments has done everything in its power to prevent people from being able to prove there innocence.

so what has this got to do wit ACA? well despite how I or anyone else feels about them, they are in a position to put a lot of pressure on the government to change the inadequacies in the law.

So I think it would be a good idea for everyone to write to ACA and commend them for running a story like this and let them know how angry we all are with the state governments over these laws. If ACA thinks there is enough intrest in this topic, than they'll probably keep running stories on it, and then sure enough all the other tabloid current affair shows like today tonight, 60 minutes etc and the tabloid newspapers like the daily telegraph, should hopefully follow suite. this should put tremendous pressure on the government to ammend the laws.

contact ACA here:

http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/feedback/feedback_form.asp

[scathing]

I'm all for it, even though I think that ACA's program is gutter checkbook journalism at its most despicable.

If the ACA realises that public opinion goes the other way and they can make ratings from showing the flipside, then they'll bring their infinitely biased and sensationalistic skills to shaming the RTA and government instead of young drivers.

[predator]

they often run stories like that... again the "ills of the everyday motorist" battling silly speeding fines.. and yet everybody else is a "hoon"

[scathing]

But they don't run the same kind of "4 part series, featuring interviews with the shadow police minister who's an ex-cop, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at what cops are doing to crack down on this kind of hooniganism" when it comes to "Aussie battlers battling the bureaucracy"

[BHDave]

Dont forget, Ray loooooves Battlers. He's mad for them.

[jezzerrr]

You want gutter journalism, turn to Today Tonight!!! I haven't watched ACA for a while now, but when I did, at least the stories were at least in part credible.

[scathing]

I'd say that you haven't watched ACA for quite some time then.

If you'd like to see the quality of Australian "current affairs" programs today, check this Media Watch story out.