Rego, Government Intervention
So Tuesday Daisie bought a car! The bus system is good here, but of course it’s easier with a car. It’s a 1999 Toyota Camry, in good working order. Some ugly paint on the roof but that’s all, or so we thought.
So here to get Registration (Rego to an Aussie) you have to be certified “Road Worthy” or safe enough to be driven. It sounds like a good idea right? Wrong. We took it in to get certified and they gave us a list a mile long of stuff to fix. Most of it seemed like trivial stuff, but he said we needed ALL of it fixed to get road worthy certified, to get registration, to get plates and to quit riding the bus.
I think that despite Australia’s similarity to America in loads of ways, there’s a little bit more of a willingness to let the government have more power here. For example, Aussies enjoy Universal health care for all citizens, and some Aboriginal people are even giving housing gratis.
Anyway, the government decides how crappy a car you can drive, even if it’s not particularly crappy. Here was our conversation:
