Re: Non payment of speeding fine
 

This is true, most cops in Oz have hidden microphones and a recorder and their conversation after they stop you is all aimed at getting to admit you were speeding....that way there can be no court issues about calibration of the speed gun, how the officer was using it etc. Just don't admit it no matter how many ways they try to ask you the same question.

Re: Non payment of speeding fine
 

Just to clarify gettign 12 points does nto mean you have to lose your licence. You have a choice:

1) Lose your licence for 3 months (and get it back clean 0 points)
2) Have a 12 month 'good behaviour period' whereby you must NOT get any points. Any violation at allresults in a full 12 month licence loss.

When faced with the choice myself (and I'm not suggesting you do the same - it was wreckless and apalling) I chose to take the 3 month ban, I went on holiday for 6 weeks to the UK (where my UK licence still functions) and minimised my very careful driving for the remaining 6 weeks.

I figured that there was no chance whatsoever of me NOT driving past a police car for 12 months (and at that stage I'd worked out that driving past a police car was all that was required to get points since I'd picked up 12 points in 9 months) - but I *might* be able to go 6 weeks without getting pinged.... It worked and actually in the 10 years since then I have only been done for speeding once (I got MUCH better at spotting those parked vans!).

Re: Non payment of speeding fine
 

What people are up to down south to avoid losing the rest of their demerit points.....http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...55-953,00.html

Re: Non payment of speeding fine
 

"The police can't ticket you unless you admit you were speeding" (what DJ apparently said) is different from "the police will try to get you to admit your offence" (what you're saying). You can see that, right?