Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

This country's fines make no sense.  you can get$70 for parking a few minutes over in the wrong spot, $150 for driving in a bus lane at the wrong time, which is the same texting while driving, an act that could, in theory, distract you enough to kill somebody on the road. So what gives?  You get $30 for going a few Kms over 100 on a main road.  Anyone who's been to Australia knows things are different. Way harsher. People, generally, follow the rules as a result.  Burt that doesn't mean nobody's crashing and dying on their roads, does it.  The problem is revenue gathering. If you actually set the fines based on the potentially damage an action may cause, we'd have a totally different system and set of punishments.  But you'd also have councils and cops who take the piss and revenue grab - speeding cameras in areas nobody's seen a crash in decades.  That's basically why we are where we are.  There is one change they can make that I support - free parking for over 80s.&nb