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>You must not use a mobile phone while driving, even when you’re stationary, for example, stopped at lights or stuck in traffic. This includes:
texting
phone calls
music
emailing
social media
using the internet
maps and navigation
photography.
>This applies to mobile phones that are handheld, in a phone holder or hands-free, for example, via Bluetooth.
> Pacific Hwy or the Hume it just fucks with the flow of traffic
Like all the caravans, trucks, etc., don't, I suppose.
>I don't understand why the mobile phone rules are so vague.
Because if people weren't ignorant of the law, it would be a lot harder to raise revenue from them. And the state needs that revenue. It pays for things like expanded police departments so they can raise more revenue.
It's a 4 point offence if you're on your Ps. Automatic disqualification for 3 months for any speeding offence. It's ridiculous! Especially for older cars with less accurate speedos.
The image is incorrect, both are power restricted. https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/check-prohibited-vehicles-provisional-p1-and-p2-drivers
But you can use a dedicated navigation device, as well as a CB Radio!
With the exception of some steep hills coming up from Gosford they stay around 100. You have two lanes so the slow vehicles cruise left and cars whizz past right. Then you get a P plater pottering along, the trucks and caravans lumbering past them, and everyone else banked up behind.
No cars have in accurate Speedos to over speed.
Under speed, sure but if the vehicle has the correct OEM tyre diameter, you can bet your house on it, the Speedo will never read over the speed what the vehicle is driving.
Over speed but less than 10 is 1 demerit point for fully licensed drivers in NSW.
Getting pinged for 63 would be closer to 70 on the odometer.
> Then you get a P plater pottering along, the trucks and caravans lumbering past them, and everyone else banked up behind.
You see that maybe one a week in daily commuting. Meanwhile, it's a daily thing to see 3-4 caravans plus a truck or two in quasi-convoy creating a overtaking choke point.
Another common occurrence is several Ford Rangers doing 130 in the right-hand lane, preventing yourself from overtaking.
In reality, the "P plater speed limit is soooooo baaadddd" is just a whinge and not anywhere near to being a great impact on traffic.
That may be true for modern cars, however her car is over 30 years old. Testing at a specialist in Wickham showed that when she got fined for 63 km, her speedo showed she was travelling at 55 km. The variation seems to increase the faster she goes. Yes, we could have fought it and would have won. But for the sake of $120 odd dollars and one demerit point for me, it wasn't worth taking a day off work to go to court and argue the point.
At what speed?
Over 30 years old? That's nothing. In regard to the running gear, cars in the 90's aren't all that different to vehicles built today.
I just told you the speed?
And my bad. The car is a 1974 model. Fuck me. It's nearly 50!
You edited your comment. It didn't say 63 before but anyway....
Yeah 1974 is a bit older than 1990.
The old plastic transducer cogs would be worn down.
But now I'm curious what vehicle you/she is driving from 1974?
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Very nice!
I'm sure you're aware they are worth over $10,000 now for an average one
It's Monday morning and there seems to be far less traffic on the road compared to usual.
It's no longer school holidays and there's no public holiday today.
The amount of traffic going by is more like what is seen on a Sunday. Usually there's traffic backed up outside for peak hour.
Even the Hume seems to have way less traffic on it.
Any strikes or events on today that could be causing this?
Edit: I figured out a possibility.
The Americans have their SuperBowl on today.
A couple of Aussies were tipped to be playing.
Could picture a lot of people chucking a sickie to watch the game.
Maybe they’re all on the far south coast. Sooo many caravans and campers today. I guess everyone just decided to take a long weekend.
People have been back about a month and RDOs are due.
Generally Mondays and Fridays are a bit quieter due to RDOs.
School holidays have ended - so maybe the people without school aged children can now have a holiday while it's still warm but outside of peak times so avoiding all the crowds?
Maybe the Super Bowl
Fuck me the traffic in the eastern suburbs was horrific this morning. Wanna swap???
Gee, some people are lucky to live the life.
Mondays are usually much busier on the roads here than today.
Usually looks like a car park before 09:30.
That's what I said above earlier in my edit.
Mate mate I’m going to stop you there. I live on South Coast in one of those “nice” beachside towns and for us locals we hate the school holidays & long weekends. I live 3 streets from the beach but on weekends and during the holidays I avoid it like the plague. Traffic becomes a nightmare, food disappears from shelves at the supermarket like a swamp of locusts and our beach gets taken over & littered on. It may be good for business but it’s a nightmare for locals. Plus we don’t get new stock in some stores (Kmart here sucks!)
Right!?
Fair enough. I must have missed that
How is that relevant to my comment?
I was saying that some people are lucky if they can afford to go and head off somewhere from the city/metropolitan areas
“Lucky” they say, not for some of us. I used to be one of those lucky people but since living here I’ve come to realise that weekenders and tourists seem to “forget” that those towns actually have people who live there and want their town to be respected & cared for.
I've just moved to Sydney and am hoping to open a bank account at a bank that has 'sms banking' or 'mobile banking' options - you text a specific phone number affiliated with the bank and it sends a run-down of your balances at that moment. This is something that my bank had while I lived in America.
I don't have a smartphone - I use a Light Phone these days. I like that the sms feature helps me get my balances without using an app or having to call the bank.
Does anyone know which bank(s) offer this? From searching so far, it seems to be QBank and Bank of Queensland, and I'm not totally sure either allows foreigners to open an account. (Plus a handful of banks I couldn't use, like Teachers.)
As I investigate this, I'd welcome other suggestions, ideally of larger banks that have a Sydney presence. HSBC AU offers an option to do this for business banking but I'm not clear they have the option for personal banking, though I'm investigating that too!
I know this doesn't answer your question but SMS in inherently insecure. You will find that most major corporations are moving away from SMS.
ID recommend posting this in r/AusFinance. This sub is pretty quiet at the best of times.
No bank as far as I know, but I do know some banks have a fairly open APIs and you could do much better than SMS them for a bank balance.
You could write your own webserver that accepts SMS and forwards you your bank balance based on API token auth.
See: https://developer.up.com.au/
Does the Commonwealth still do phonebank? I used to use this years ago - not a text but you rang the bank's number, input your client number and password and you could go to a menu with banking options, including balance inquiries. This is old tech - most people these days would just use an app.
Gross
I’m just curious, why don’t you have a smart phone?
My bank (originally a credit union) has Internet Banking and an app but years ago, these options weren't in existence and it seemed high tech at the time that we had Redidial, which is telephone banking.
The service allowed transfer of funds between one's own accounts or to accounts of other members, interest earned, order a statement, the account balance and details of the last five transactions + the previous five transactions to those, all for the cost of a local call (higher of course, on mobiles).
I haven't used it for a long time because internet banking is so much more convenient but as far as I know, it's still available and there's no charge to use it.
I'd say it's probably safer than using SMS, as you need a PIN to access your account.
The only downside is if someone knows your member number and PIN, they could access your account and possibly your funds (if they had an account of their own as well).
Pretty sure ING and Commonwealth do phone banking (among others). Like others have suggested you would have to ring them up to get your balance etc.
You can use the phone banking service. Most banks have an automated phone banking system that reads out balances and last 5 transactions.
Agree that sms is insecure but disagree that major banks are taking steps to move away from sms.
With commbank and their net app requires sms 2fa to use.
I have a keychain 2fa hard token with combank and the app doesn’t work with it at all. It’s a total pain in the ass.
Most major banks in aus still use 2fa and outsource the responsibility of security to the major telcos
And the major telcos also do a pretty shit job of security.
Thanks for your response. Would you mind clarifying a bit what you mean? Do you think there's any loophole through which someone could access my account if I had set up SMS banking via eg the Internet? Even if all that was happening via SMS was just the balance request and response?
To clarify (in case this is what you meant) - I'm not worried if a stranger steals my phone and sees my balance. Or a stranger somehow gets secure info from the bank and sees the SMS messages that state my balance. I'd be worried only if a stranger could actually access the funds themselves (whether by stealing my phone or breaching the bank's data in some way). Are you saying that using SMS texting would increase the chances of this happening?
I personally would love to get away from smart phones. Before you know it they’ll be using the front facing camera to read your facial expressions and eye movements to determine how you react to certain content. If they already aren’t.
From a less conspiratorial perspective it’s nice to not be ‘connected’ all the time. Not that you asked me :)
This is super helpful, thank you! Are you able to share the name of the bank and I can see whether I'm eligible to open an account there?
It's incredibly easy to spoof a phone number (spoofing is actually legal to do non-maliciously . Relying on SMS for any kind of security is just not optional these days.
Wait until u find out corporations already have most of ur info and r actively tracking u
It depends on a range of factors that are applicable to your employment specifically.
Pop over and run it through the [Pay and Conditions Tool](https://calculate.fairwork.gov.au/FindYourAward) and see how you go.
Bastards probably just assume that since it's in safe Nationals territory that they can do anything they want and the people will just keep voting them in.
Remember when the Nationals used to represent farmers and agricultural interests? It's all about mining now.
Are they wrong. I'm pretty sure the nationals member could walk onto their farm and shoot their dog and they'd still vote nationals.
nice native

>You must not use a mobile phone while driving, even when you’re stationary, for example, stopped at lights or stuck in traffic. This includes:

texting

phone calls

music

emailing

social media

using the internet

maps and navigation

photography.

>This applies to mobile phones that are handheld, in a phone holder or hands-free, for example, via Bluetooth.

> Pacific Hwy or the Hume it just fucks with the flow of traffic

Like all the caravans, trucks, etc., don't, I suppose.

>I don't understand why the mobile phone rules are so vague.

Because if people weren't ignorant of the law, it would be a lot harder to raise revenue from them. And the state needs that revenue. It pays for things like expanded police departments so they can raise more revenue.

It's a 4 point offence if you're on your Ps. Automatic disqualification for 3 months for any speeding offence. It's ridiculous! Especially for older cars with less accurate speedos.

The image is incorrect, both are power restricted. https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/check-prohibited-vehicles-provisional-p1-and-p2-drivers

But you can use a dedicated navigation device, as well as a CB Radio!

With the exception of some steep hills coming up from Gosford they stay around 100. You have two lanes so the slow vehicles cruise left and cars whizz past right. Then you get a P plater pottering along, the trucks and caravans lumbering past them, and everyone else banked up behind.

No cars have in accurate Speedos to over speed.

Under speed, sure but if the vehicle has the correct OEM tyre diameter, you can bet your house on it, the Speedo will never read over the speed what the vehicle is driving.

Over speed but less than 10 is 1 demerit point for fully licensed drivers in NSW.

Getting pinged for 63 would be closer to 70 on the odometer.

> Then you get a P plater pottering along, the trucks and caravans lumbering past them, and everyone else banked up behind.

You see that maybe one a week in daily commuting. Meanwhile, it's a daily thing to see 3-4 caravans plus a truck or two in quasi-convoy creating a overtaking choke point.

Another common occurrence is several Ford Rangers doing 130 in the right-hand lane, preventing yourself from overtaking.

In reality, the "P plater speed limit is soooooo baaadddd" is just a whinge and not anywhere near to being a great impact on traffic.

That may be true for modern cars, however her car is over 30 years old. Testing at a specialist in Wickham showed that when she got fined for 63 km, her speedo showed she was travelling at 55 km. The variation seems to increase the faster she goes. Yes, we could have fought it and would have won. But for the sake of $120 odd dollars and one demerit point for me, it wasn't worth taking a day off work to go to court and argue the point.

At what speed?

Over 30 years old? That's nothing. In regard to the running gear, cars in the 90's aren't all that different to vehicles built today.

I just told you the speed?

And my bad. The car is a 1974 model. Fuck me. It's nearly 50!

You edited your comment. It didn't say 63 before but anyway....

Yeah 1974 is a bit older than 1990.

The old plastic transducer cogs would be worn down.

But now I'm curious what vehicle you/she is driving from 1974?

[deleted]

Very nice!

I'm sure you're aware they are worth over $10,000 now for an average one

It's Monday morning and there seems to be far less traffic on the road compared to usual.

It's no longer school holidays and there's no public holiday today.

The amount of traffic going by is more like what is seen on a Sunday. Usually there's traffic backed up outside for peak hour.

Even the Hume seems to have way less traffic on it.

Any strikes or events on today that could be causing this?

Edit: I figured out a possibility.

The Americans have their SuperBowl on today.

A couple of Aussies were tipped to be playing.

Could picture a lot of people chucking a sickie to watch the game.

Maybe they’re all on the far south coast. Sooo many caravans and campers today. I guess everyone just decided to take a long weekend.

People have been back about a month and RDOs are due.

Generally Mondays and Fridays are a bit quieter due to RDOs.

School holidays have ended - so maybe the people without school aged children can now have a holiday while it's still warm but outside of peak times so avoiding all the crowds?

Maybe the Super Bowl

Fuck me the traffic in the eastern suburbs was horrific this morning. Wanna swap???

Gee, some people are lucky to live the life.

Mondays are usually much busier on the roads here than today.

Usually looks like a car park before 09:30.

That's what I said above earlier in my edit.

Mate mate I’m going to stop you there. I live on South Coast in one of those “nice” beachside towns and for us locals we hate the school holidays & long weekends. I live 3 streets from the beach but on weekends and during the holidays I avoid it like the plague. Traffic becomes a nightmare, food disappears from shelves at the supermarket like a swamp of locusts and our beach gets taken over & littered on. It may be good for business but it’s a nightmare for locals. Plus we don’t get new stock in some stores (Kmart here sucks!)

Right!?

Fair enough. I must have missed that

How is that relevant to my comment?

I was saying that some people are lucky if they can afford to go and head off somewhere from the city/metropolitan areas

“Lucky” they say, not for some of us. I used to be one of those lucky people but since living here I’ve come to realise that weekenders and tourists seem to “forget” that those towns actually have people who live there and want their town to be respected & cared for.

I've just moved to Sydney and am hoping to open a bank account at a bank that has 'sms banking' or 'mobile banking' options - you text a specific phone number affiliated with the bank and it sends a run-down of your balances at that moment. This is something that my bank had while I lived in America.

I don't have a smartphone - I use a Light Phone these days. I like that the sms feature helps me get my balances without using an app or having to call the bank.

Does anyone know which bank(s) offer this? From searching so far, it seems to be QBank and Bank of Queensland, and I'm not totally sure either allows foreigners to open an account. (Plus a handful of banks I couldn't use, like Teachers.)

As I investigate this, I'd welcome other suggestions, ideally of larger banks that have a Sydney presence. HSBC AU offers an option to do this for business banking but I'm not clear they have the option for personal banking, though I'm investigating that too!

I know this doesn't answer your question but SMS in inherently insecure. You will find that most major corporations are moving away from SMS.

ID recommend posting this in r/AusFinance. This sub is pretty quiet at the best of times.

No bank as far as I know, but I do know some banks have a fairly open APIs and you could do much better than SMS them for a bank balance.

You could write your own webserver that accepts SMS and forwards you your bank balance based on API token auth.

See: https://developer.up.com.au/

Does the Commonwealth still do phonebank? I used to use this years ago - not a text but you rang the bank's number, input your client number and password and you could go to a menu with banking options, including balance inquiries. This is old tech - most people these days would just use an app.

Gross

I’m just curious, why don’t you have a smart phone?

My bank (originally a credit union) has Internet Banking and an app but years ago, these options weren't in existence and it seemed high tech at the time that we had Redidial, which is telephone banking.

The service allowed transfer of funds between one's own accounts or to accounts of other members, interest earned, order a statement, the account balance and details of the last five transactions + the previous five transactions to those, all for the cost of a local call (higher of course, on mobiles).

I haven't used it for a long time because internet banking is so much more convenient but as far as I know, it's still available and there's no charge to use it.

I'd say it's probably safer than using SMS, as you need a PIN to access your account.

The only downside is if someone knows your member number and PIN, they could access your account and possibly your funds (if they had an account of their own as well).

Pretty sure ING and Commonwealth do phone banking (among others). Like others have suggested you would have to ring them up to get your balance etc.

You can use the phone banking service. Most banks have an automated phone banking system that reads out balances and last 5 transactions.

Agree that sms is insecure but disagree that major banks are taking steps to move away from sms.

With commbank and their net app requires sms 2fa to use.

I have a keychain 2fa hard token with combank and the app doesn’t work with it at all. It’s a total pain in the ass.

Most major banks in aus still use 2fa and outsource the responsibility of security to the major telcos

And the major telcos also do a pretty shit job of security.

Thanks for your response. Would you mind clarifying a bit what you mean? Do you think there's any loophole through which someone could access my account if I had set up SMS banking via eg the Internet? Even if all that was happening via SMS was just the balance request and response?

To clarify (in case this is what you meant) - I'm not worried if a stranger steals my phone and sees my balance. Or a stranger somehow gets secure info from the bank and sees the SMS messages that state my balance. I'd be worried only if a stranger could actually access the funds themselves (whether by stealing my phone or breaching the bank's data in some way). Are you saying that using SMS texting would increase the chances of this happening?

I personally would love to get away from smart phones. Before you know it they’ll be using the front facing camera to read your facial expressions and eye movements to determine how you react to certain content. If they already aren’t.

From a less conspiratorial perspective it’s nice to not be ‘connected’ all the time. Not that you asked me :)

This is super helpful, thank you! Are you able to share the name of the bank and I can see whether I'm eligible to open an account there?

It's incredibly easy to spoof a phone number (spoofing is actually legal to do non-maliciously . Relying on SMS for any kind of security is just not optional these days.

Wait until u find out corporations already have most of ur info and r actively tracking u

It depends on a range of factors that are applicable to your employment specifically.

Pop over and run it through the [Pay and Conditions Tool](https://calculate.fairwork.gov.au/FindYourAward) and see how you go.

Bastards probably just assume that since it's in safe Nationals territory that they can do anything they want and the people will just keep voting them in.

Remember when the Nationals used to represent farmers and agricultural interests? It's all about mining now.

Are they wrong. I'm pretty sure the nationals member could walk onto their farm and shoot their dog and they'd still vote nationals.

nice native