And complete BS. How’s an offence twice as bad because you did it on a public holiday?
Here in QLD we have double demerits on holidays and double demerit points for repeat offenders!
Just having double demerits for repeat offenders would be fairer as at least you could argue that the double demerits are justified to reduce risks from repeat offenders.
https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/safety/fines/demerit/double
I take it that you have not lived in WA?
1. Most of the Western Australian population live between Perth and Mandurah ....... about 50 km south.
2. 125 kph is about the average 'cruising speed' of every second 4 wheel drive once you get out of Perth........ excluding the Grey Army.
3. It is a very different kind of redneckery over that way compared to the East Coast.
4. Perth's weekend destination is Margaret River and its winery district 270km...... To get there, you drive through 4 towns........ more correctly, you skirt the edge of 2 and drive through two small villages called Cowramup and Vasse.......these are near the Margaret River end of the road. The rest of the time, you are driving through sparsely populated areas..... a lot of it on divided roads.
5. Once you get inland from the west coast....... there is even less people........... but a lot of decently paved roads.
6. Without needing to get my head bitten off ........ many drivers over that way appear to consider 110 kph 'advisory' or a 'recommendation'
7. The speeding fines have only increased in the last couple of years....... it used to be $50 and no points for <9kph..... $150 and 2 points < 19kph.
8. People figured out how the cameras work.... when the computer makes the decision to capture the speed and take the photograph........ the camera vans can only set up in an 'approved location'........ it takes an 'authorised' risk management plan....... which is why they are often parked up in the same spots all the time over that way. ..... this was very common knowledge on FIFO projects.
Double points over that way tended to calm things down a bit.
Edit..... just on crime in general......... the average cost to keep somebody in jail is about $300 to $400 a day........ I have also read around $62,000 a year per person. There are approximately 30,000 in custody on any given day in Australia........
The Governments would rather have them 'paying off' fines than spending money to keep them locked up........where ever possible......... many criminal actions such as burglaries are theoretically covered by insurance..... your house gets ransacked.... you claim it on your insurance....... your car gets stolen....... you claim it on your insurance.
That is why the courts aren't interested in locking people up and throwing the key away over relatively minor stuff........ I think manslaughter only works out to be around 4 years nowadays in some parts of the country. Sometimes less with good behaviour or a person with a minor record.