This story cropped up this morning from the NT.
Do any of you guys have personalised plates on your cars that are brewing related ?
A number of guys in the US who frequent skotrat.com have BREWRAT plates.
I thought about getting DRB33R a few years ago, but on the last check someone else had registered it.
Beers,
Doc
Minister snookers CUE plate
By NIGEL ADLAM
11may05
A Government minister last night stepped in to ban a driver from having the numberplate FAR CUE.
Transport Minister Chris Burns ordered the car owner to return to Motor Vehicle Registry and get a new registration.
He had to use his powers of ministerial discretion to make the order.
``I don't want to be a spoilsport but I decided to ask the MVR to reconsider this numberplate,'' Dr Burns said.
``There is a system in place to deal with personalised plates that push the boundaries and it generally gets it right.''
Dr Burns acted after real estate agent Glenda Stripling complained that the rego number was offensive.
She has seen the red four-wheel-drive carrying the plate twice in Darwin. ``It's revolting _ so aggressive,'' she said.
The vehicle is believed to be owned by a woman and her husband.
Ms Stripling, 57, of Rapid Creek, said the minister's decision was ``a good win'' for decency.
But she said the MVR's policy on personalised numberplates was inconsistent.
Ms Stripling said a Greek-Australian woman was stopped from having WOG.GIRL and a Palmerston man was banned from using his nickname BALLS.
``And yet they let through something that is obviously offensive,'' she said.
MVR manager Craig Bradley defended the numberplate.
Mr Bradley said FAR.CUE did not fall under the three headings that prompted a review by a panel of MVR managers _ being sexually explicit, racially offensive or blasphemous.
``The two words in isolation are not offensive,'' he said.
Prospective numberplates are read backwards to check that they are not offensive in reverse.
Personalised numberplates cost $140 in the Territory, which makes them the cheapest in Australia.
Do any of you guys have personalised plates on your cars that are brewing related ?
A number of guys in the US who frequent skotrat.com have BREWRAT plates.
I thought about getting DRB33R a few years ago, but on the last check someone else had registered it.
Beers,
Doc
Minister snookers CUE plate
By NIGEL ADLAM
11may05
A Government minister last night stepped in to ban a driver from having the numberplate FAR CUE.
Transport Minister Chris Burns ordered the car owner to return to Motor Vehicle Registry and get a new registration.
He had to use his powers of ministerial discretion to make the order.
``I don't want to be a spoilsport but I decided to ask the MVR to reconsider this numberplate,'' Dr Burns said.
``There is a system in place to deal with personalised plates that push the boundaries and it generally gets it right.''
Dr Burns acted after real estate agent Glenda Stripling complained that the rego number was offensive.
She has seen the red four-wheel-drive carrying the plate twice in Darwin. ``It's revolting _ so aggressive,'' she said.
The vehicle is believed to be owned by a woman and her husband.
Ms Stripling, 57, of Rapid Creek, said the minister's decision was ``a good win'' for decency.
But she said the MVR's policy on personalised numberplates was inconsistent.
Ms Stripling said a Greek-Australian woman was stopped from having WOG.GIRL and a Palmerston man was banned from using his nickname BALLS.
``And yet they let through something that is obviously offensive,'' she said.
MVR manager Craig Bradley defended the numberplate.
Mr Bradley said FAR.CUE did not fall under the three headings that prompted a review by a panel of MVR managers _ being sexually explicit, racially offensive or blasphemous.
``The two words in isolation are not offensive,'' he said.
Prospective numberplates are read backwards to check that they are not offensive in reverse.
Personalised numberplates cost $140 in the Territory, which makes them the cheapest in Australia.
