Ray,
Hopefully people in Australia are better drivers and the courts are smarter than they are here in the States.
My beliefs are that adults should only wear belts or helmets if they want and you should not need a permit to carry a gun, however in our society many are too stupid to handle the responsibility. I like Darwinism, but if the fools do not do it right and just maim themselves we all pay, especially when lawyers get involved. I can see people in California getting tickets when they use their windshield washers without lights on, but the person reading a book and using a cell phone while crusing down the freeway at 70 causing accidents left and right just goes on with life.
At this point in time, the laws have gone overboard protecting the lowest functioning IQ; hopefully the tide will turn towards more personal responsiblity in the very near future.
