Yesterday, the Minister for Main Roads, Road Safety and Ports and Minister for Energy, Biofuels and Water Supply, Mark Bailey MP hosted a forum to help shape a new cycling strategy for Queensland. The forum allowed cycling stakeholders from across Queensland to have their say, and for the Minister to hear first-hand what Queenslanders want … Read more
Thursday 19 February 2009 is a day that will forever be etched in my memory. It was to be a day of celebration, a day to celebrate my youngest boy’s 5th birthday. I spent my lunch break laughing and chatting with work colleagues decorating a birthday cake. After work I collected my two youngest … Read more
There has been a bit of news of late in relation to the movement of the earth and our compensation for it. The tectonic plate on which the Australian continent sits is moving roughly northwards at the rate of around 7cm per year. The practical upshot of this is that using a standalone GPS, such … Read more
When driving long distances, the two-finger salute is a rite of passage, passed down from generation to generation. Before you make an assumption or take offence, what is the two-finger salute I refer too and how exactly does it work? The two-finger salute is something that my Mum taught me to always do when … Read more
Queensland is the capital of road safety this week, with more than 300 researchers and practitioners meeting in Brisbane for the Sixth International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology (2-5 August 2016). I was pleased to give conference delegates a policy perspective of Queensland’s experience of reforming licensing for young drivers – and our ongoing … Read more