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Media Releases
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2015 |
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New NSW Cycling Package is a Good Start |
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Monday 21 December, 2015 |
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2014 |
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Another Pedestrian Killed in the Sydney CBD |
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Monday 5 May, 2014 |
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2012 |
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Taxi Drivers Not Wearing Seat-Belts in NSW |
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Tuesday 3 April, 2012 |
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FoI Reveals NSW Speed Cameras Switched Off Prematurely and Against RTA/RMS Advice |
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2011 |
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Auditor-General Proves Speed Cameras Are Life-Savers NOT Revenue-Raisers |
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Thursday 28 July 2011 |
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2010
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Audit Office Schoolzone Report |
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Thursday 25 February, 2010 |
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Traders Coerce Council to Put Profits Before Safety |
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Thursday 21 January, 2010 |
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2009
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FoI Reveals Many Driving Offences Not Enforced |
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Sunday 19 December, 2009 |
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Speeding in NSW Schoolzones is Unenforced & Unenforceable |
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Monday 23 November, 2009 |
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Tread the path to a healthier life |
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Friday 2 October, 2009 |
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FoI Reveals VicRoads Incompetence |
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NRMA Playing Politics With Road Safety |
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Schoolzone Scandal 2009 |
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Over 99% of NSW Schoolzones are Unsafe |
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2008
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FoI Reveals Our Children Are Not Safe |
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Wednesday, 24 December 2008 |
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Shared bicycle paths |
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Tuesday 2 December, 2008 |
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Deadly Carparks |
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Wednesday 20 February, 2008 |
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2007
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Schoolzone Scandal |
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Wednesday 26 September, 2007 |
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Covert Speed Enforcement Scandal |
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Tuesday 5 June 2007 |
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P-Plate Decision Day - No More Meetings – No More Diversions |
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Tuesday 9 January 2007 |
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Speed Camera Scandal |
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Thursday 4 January 2007 |
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2006
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Red Light Camera Scandal |
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Friday 22 December 2006 |
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Road Safety Coalition for P-Plate Reform |
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Tuesday 19 December 2006 |
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NSW DPP Directs Appeal on .08 P-Plate Drink Drive Case |
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Tuesday 14 November 2006 |
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Trading Lives for Votes |
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Friday 3 November 2006 |
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Speed Limits and Demerit Points for Northern Territory |
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Thursday 2 November 2006 |
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Magistrates Cannot Quash Demerit Points |
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Saturday 28 October 2006 |
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PCA Calls on NSW Government to Follow Victoria &Make Minimum P-Plate Age 18 Yrs |
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Sunday 22 October 2006 |
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Metal Bullbars Increase the Risk of Death or Injury to Pedestrians |
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Thursday 14 September 2006 |
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Millionaires’ Transport Talkfest |
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Sunday 3 August 2006 |
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RACS and PCA Condemn Nestlé “Burnouts” & Call For Withdrawal of the Product |
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Monday 26 June 2006 |
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NSW Police Media |
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Tuesday 13 June 2006 |
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School Zones - PCA Calls for Flashing Lights |
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Friday 19 May 2006 |
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8 to 5 - Ensure They Survive |
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Friday 19 May 2006 |
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Michael Costa - We Demand Answers |
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Friday 19 May 2006 |
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Double Demerits: RTA & Police obsessed with speeding & seat-belt offences |
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Wednesday 12 April 2006 |
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Certain NSW Councils Deliberately Refusing to Enforce Pedestrian Zone Law |
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Sunday 26 February 2006 |
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DRINK-DRIVE - GET-OFF |
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Sunday 19 February 2006 |
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FoI Reveals over $10 million of Speed Camera Fines Escaped Demerit Points |
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Wednesday 4 January 2006 |
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2005
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Ban lethal raised vehicles from our roads now |
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Friday 9 December 2005 |
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PCA Calls on All Councils - Parking Enforcement Programs Around Schools |
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Sunday 6 November 2005 |
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Top Highway Patrol Cop Claims Transit Lanes are Unenforceable |
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Tuesday 11 October 2005 |
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NRMA on the wrong road |
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Wednesday 21 September 2005 |
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Four-wheel-drive backlash: the great divide |
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Tuesday 23 August 2005 |
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Demerit Points Rort |
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Wednesday 17 August 2005 |
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Homeland Security Threat - Illegal Number-Plates and Tinted Windows |
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Sunday 10 July 2005 |
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Costa's Truck Summit |
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Thursday 7 July 2005 |
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What a Mess - Costa's Consistent Inconsistencies: |
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Tuesday 28 June 2005 |
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Costa's meddling with penalties & demerit points set to wreck Carr's bus lanes |
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Thursday 23 June 2005 |
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Pedestrians Beware |
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Tuesday 21 June 2005 |
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Truck-Driver Fatigue Penalties Farcical |
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Tuesday 14 June 2005 |
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Costa set to scuttle Scully's pedestrian safety initiatives |
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Friday 10 June 2005 |
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PCA Calls on NSW Roads Minister Michael Costa to increase P-plate age to 18 |
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Monday 21 February 2005 |
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The Unlicensed Drivers Scandal: Victoria Acts While NSW Dithers |
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Monday 17 January 2005 |
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2004
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Mercedes-Benz 'Monk-Insect' Ad Withdrawn |
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Wednesday 1 December 2004 |
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Admission from Australia's Chief Medical Officer |
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Friday 3 November 2004 |
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Carl Scully on revised demerit points system |
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Thursday 23rd September 2004 |
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Confiscate the Phone |
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Wednesday 25 Auguest 2004 |
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Vehicle impoundments for unlicensed drivers |
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Monday 23 August 2004 |
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PCA Thanks Carl Scully for Flashing Orange Lights |
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Thursday 22 July 2004 |
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PCA gets its first motor-vehicle ad withdrawn |
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Thursday 19 August 2004 |
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Survey Reveals NSW Drivers Supports P-Plate Curfews and Passenger Restrictions |
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Sunday 18 July 2004 |
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Curfews and Passenger Restrictions for P-Plate Drivers |
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Thursday 1 July 2004 |
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Sydney Lord Mayor believes car free day merits serious investigation |
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Tuesday 27 April 2004 |
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The Great Number-Plate Rort |
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Wednesday 10 March 2004 |
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“Drink-Drive – Get-Off” |
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Sunday 29 February 2004 |
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Urgent call for road safety summit |
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Friday 2 January 2004 |
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2003
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Pedestrian and Bicycle Organisations Support Bracks Govt Anti-Speed Campaign |
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Sunday 23 November 2003 |
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Australian Transport Ministers Agree To Changes For New 4wd Vehicles |
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Thursday 16 October 2003 |
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PCA asks NSW Roads Minister Carl Scully for speed cameras on Harbour Bridge |
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Tuesday 14 October 2003 |
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PCA Calls for Red Light-Speed Cameras at Intersections and Pedestrian Crossings |
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Sunday 14 September 2003 |
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PCA Begs Minister to Remove Magistrates’ Discretion in Drink-Drive Cases |
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Friday 29 August 2003 |
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PCA Asks For New Laws to Force Taxi Drivers to Wear Seat Belts |
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Tuesday 8 July 2003 |
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PCA Calls on Lord Mayor Lucy Turnbull to Declare Sydney’s CBD a 40 kmh Zone |
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Monday 5 May 2003 |
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Seat-Belt Laws Are Lethal |
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Tuesday 15 April 2003 |
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PCA Calls For Double-Demerit Points For All DP Offences Over the Holidays |
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Sunday 13 April 2003 |
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PCA Calls For Demerit Points & Loss Of Licence For Drivers Who Falsify Log Books |
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Wednesday 26 February 2003 |
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2002
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PCA Applauds Minister Scully On Tough Speeding And School-Zone Program |
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Wednesday 23 October 2002 |
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PCA Calls on Governments to Urgently Adopt New Bullbar Standards |
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Monday 23 September 2002 |
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Saatchi & Saatchi and PCA Win 'Best Australian Commercial Of The Year' |
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Sunday 21 July 2002 |
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PCA Calls On Lord Mayor Sartor To Immediately Ban Scrolling Billboards In CBD |
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Thursday 4 July 2002 |
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Vulnerable Road-User Group Slams Boswell “Do Nothing” Report |
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Monday 1 July 2002 |
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PCA Claims Responsibility For The Transfer Of Parking Enforcement From Police |
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Sunday 30 June 2002 |
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Demerit Points Must Only Be Used For Road Safety, Claims PCA |
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Friday 7 June |
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PCA Calls on NSW Govt to Immediately Proclaim 50 kmh Default Urban Speed Limit |
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Sunday 26 May 2002 |
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URBAN ASSAULT VEHICLES - PCA Slams Sen Boswell's Killer-4WDs Report |
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Sunday 17 March 2002 |
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More Speed Cameras - PCA Congratulates NSW Government |
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Friday 15 March 2002 |
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PCA Calls on NSW Govt to Install Fixed Speed Cameras & Flashing Orange Lights |
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Sunday 3 March 2002 |
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2001
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PCA Congratulates Telstra on “Drive Safe.Phone Safe” Eductn & Awareness Campaign |
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Thursday 20 December 2001 |
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STAYSAFE School Zone Report Seriously Flawed |
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Sunday 29 July 2001 |
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PCA Congratulates NSW Government and RTA on Bullbar Inspection Safety Standards |
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Sunday 24 June 2001 |
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“Chopper” Read Drink-Drive Advertisement Wins Gold at Cannes |
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Sunday 24 June 2001 |
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Pedestrian crossing penalties unenforceable |
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Tuesday 1 May 2001 |
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Penalties and Demerit Points an Utter Farce |
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Sunday 8 April 2001 |
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“Chopper” Read to Feature in Drink Driving Campaign |
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Thursday 15 March 2001 |
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Telstra backs down - SMS Speed trap service scrapped |
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Wednesday 28 February 2001 |
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603 White crosses to commemorate NSW road deaths |
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Tuesday 2 January 2001 |
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2000
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Road Toll - Massacre |
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Thursday 28 December 2000 |
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PCA Congratulates Govt on Decision to Transfer Parking Enforcement to Councils |
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Wednesday 29 November 2000 |
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Another prominent citizens "Gets Off" |
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Friday 24 November 2000 |
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Major ORTA Blunder - Pedestrian lives at risk |
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Sunday 10 September 2000 |
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Why Pedestrians Remain Second-Class Citizens |
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Monday 4 September 2000 |
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School Zones |
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Wednesday 16 August 2000 |
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PCA praises FedEx |
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Tuesday 8th August 2000 |
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PCA calls for double demerit points for Olympics |
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Monday 7 August 2000 |
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Pedestrians Get Their Rights |
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Monday 3 July 2000 |
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Sydney CBD - A pedestrian nightmare |
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Monday 8 May 2000 |
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Transit lanes must go |
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Thursday 23 March 2000 |
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1999
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PCA Calls for Urgent Inquiry into Work-Practices of NSW Parking Patrol Officers |
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Sunday 19 July 1998 |
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1997 |
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Ban all bull-bars now |
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Monday 24 February 1997
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1996
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Call for action rally on bicycle couriers |
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Monday 2 December 1996 |