As a frequent after dusk driver I go at 60 km/h to avoid crashing into a kangaroo, much to the annoyance of drivers behind me. It's hard travelling from Castlemaine on the McIvor Highway as many motorists think it's their right to stick to 100 km even in rain and after dark. 

They must hate me, but having hit three kangaroos as I travelled at 80 km/h (from the pressure of lead-foots behind me) I'll stick to my guns.

The highway between Castlemaine and Harcourt is practically residential - with many homes along the road-side - and I welcomed the new 80 km zone recently added before the 60 km sign - as there are 3 kms of kangaroos crossing and double lines in that patch. I'd welcome any day  an 80 limit all the way back to Harcourt. 

People (including me) should  leave earlier rather than driving faster and risking ending their own and other's lives prematurely.

I feel as though no one remembers, that our parliamentary members, were elected to serve the people. Not big business. Not church steeples.

Not the mining of our land, and they deserve our reprimand, for us to tell them what we think, print our thoughts in angry ink, shout out loud and on paper, and never let our focus taper, because we deserve our democracy, not this ill thought hypothesis, of a budget oh so cruel, with cuts to all the public schools? the fuel tax, the doctors fee, remember when health was free? this made up economic scare, is no excuse to axe medicare! or to cut the welfare pay, screwing students in every way, so bust the budget hear us loud, make them listen to the crowd, for we will march, petition, protest! against the things that we detest, we must stand tall for those who can not, against the parliamentary rot, who aim to cripple a strong nation.

So stand up to this abomination, yell it loud and speak it clear, and all across the country hear, the call to arms, the rallying movement. Shouting for a required improvement, and with my words I do denote, not on my watch and not with my vote.

Wake up Bendigo council and local pollies. Where is our ring road?  Bendigo is the laughing stock of Victoria. Currently if you travel through Bendigo you have 40 km of restrictions from Big Hill to the Seven Sisters the other side of Huntly. Thousands of vehicles including smelly trucks travel this route daily right through the centre of Bendigo.

Accidents seem to occur on this section of road on a daily basis.  Ring ring, let's get the ring road on the way. Probably not in my time.  Meanwhile to help avoid some of the accidents, vehicles should only be allowed to do right hand turns at designated lanes at clearly marked intersections. Overhead signs? Perhaps the rope barriers might work.  Funding for this has just been announced by the Victorian government. It would be interesting to hear the views of the new council candidates.