The seminar was held at the Corner Hotel in Coburg. Speakers included the Shadow Minister for Roads & TAC Luke Donnellan MP, Steve Bardsley representing the Victorian Scooter Riders Association, John Voyage from Maurice Blackburn Lawyers and Miss Vicky Creed from the Orange Knights, the State Emergency Service Motorcycle Club. The seminar was open to all and a wide range of riders attended.
The question and answer sessions were lively and the questions and comments were intelligent and to the point. Certainly vastly different from VicRoads/TAC information sessions with invited audiences.
Shadow Minister Donnellan was straight on questions he could not answer on the spot and he stayed to the end to chat with various people from the audience. Minister for Roads Mulder on the other hand did not even have the manners to decline our invitation, he ignored it.
The Corner Hotel Management looked after us very well and the food was great.
John Liberman and the FREEDOM RIDERS did a terrific job setting up the venue with a PA system and organising a ride to the Corner Hotel for the cameras. Don't forget their LAST STAND RIDE to Parliament House in Canberra on December 1, 2014. More details later.
Thanks to Bianca and Rob for bringing her racing outfit so everyone knew there was a motorcyclists'do in the pub.
There were a few cameras. ABC TV filmed the ride arriving and did interviews. Greg Hirst was down from Sydney filming the seminar. The second series of his TEMPORARY AUSTRALIANS TV show goes to air on October 1 on Channel 1. More details later.
The clear message from the seminar was that we are being treated badly by road authorities and the government is not stopping it. On August 19 the Attorney General's anti association law goes to the Upper House. On October 1 compulsory conspicuity laws come in. The are very bad laws. We only have three months to the election. If riders want to keep their rights and improve their safety, we have to act now. Use social media . Talk to local media. Go see your MPs.
www.parliament.vic.gov.au/members
Thanks again for coming.
Damien
IRG
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