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From the MCC.

"Dear all,

The Liberal Government is slipping new CTP legislation through Parliament with indecent hast.

They claim they have consulted with the Motorcycle fraternity by giving us a lecture on the new Legislation in Minister Pearce's office about 3 weeks ago and the Legislation was not made available to us.

In direct response to our query about time frames they advised that the Legislation would go into Parliament in about 4 months yet they slipped it in through the night last week without anyone having a proper chance to read, review and comment on the legislation.

The MCCofNSW were not given a heads up that the Legislation was ready for submission to Parliament either.



We managed to get it held up the other night by the Fishers and Shooters but only until 18 June.

There are some good things in it;

• Progress payments to the injured from date of injury.

• At Fault claimants are allowed to claim where it used to be only no fault third party claimants. So if you have a single vehicle accident you can claim.

• The Government reckons Greenslips will reduce by 15%, but they have already gone up 10% so 5% saving only.



Bad points are;

• No legal representation as they are cutting the lawyers out of the system so you need to rely upon the benevolence of the insurers and the appeal process is not clear at all.

• Allowing "At Fault" claims will increase the claim numbers by something like 80%. The Government reckons the price will go down but it doesn't make sense if you are allowing another 80% or 7,000 claimants.

• Benefits will be reduced to make savings to pay at fault drivers.

• You can only claim 80% of your lost earnings instead of 100%.

• You won't be able to claim for carers so if you break both wrists and your partner takes time off work to wipe your bum you can't claim their lost wages anymore.

• Claims will be limited to something like a table of maims eg: lose one eye $20,000 lose 2 eyes $40,000 that sort of thing.

• Kids under 16 may not be covered after 5 years and probably won’t be covered for lost earnings after 5 years if they are at less than 10% impairment



None of the changes have been raised nor explored and no figures, dollars etc have been made available as yet, so no judgement can be made on this, yet the Government insists on shoving this through Parliament to get it enacted. I have a sneaking suspicion there is something more to this than meets the eye and they do not want it examined.



Meanwhile the NRMA are completely silent on this because they have a caveat on them from the sale of the NRMA insurance arm that they will not comment on insurance matters in NSW.

Whatever happens there are serious doubts that anyone will truly benefit from this change until they prove it different.



Email Minister Pearce and ask him why this is being shoved through without following due process

office@pearce.minister.nsw.gov.au



Write to the MAA and ask them why there are no figures available so we can make a valid judgement on the proposal and why they are not following due process for consultation as outlined in COAG.

http://www.finance.gov.au/obpr/consultation/coag-consultation.html

maa@maa.nsw.gov.au <mailto:maa@maa.nsw.gov.au>



Send a note to the Shooters and Fishers party asking the same things

Robert Borsak robert.borsak@parliament.nsw.gov.au

Rob Brown robert.brown@parliament.nsw.gov.au



And to the Christian Democrats Fred Nile

F.Nile@parliament.nsw.gov.au



And the Shadow Roads Minister Ryan Park

keira@parliament.nsw.gov.au



And the opposition Minister John Robertson

blacktown@parliament.nsw.gov.au







cheers,

Chris



Christopher James Burns

MCCofNSW Delegate"
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