Dunno bout centrelink mate, first things first, rego and license which are the hardest hills to get over, then there will be a precedence forth erest to follow.

Hoo Roo Happy Days
Grumps

I agree, we are one country not seven.
It would make living near a state border easier too.

I whole heartedly agree mate. I currently have a Vic driver's licence, (supposed to be a national licence which it doesn't appear to be) SA rego on my campervan & Qld rego for a ute in Qld. I don't have any problem registering either vehicles using my Vic licence.
I also had an SA driver's licence until it was matched & cancelled several years ago despite the fact that I owned property in SA & lived there at the time. I was flawed at that decision.
I have taken it up with the Police in each state (my daughter being one in SA) & they don't want to know about it. They only want to know whether you have a valid driver's licence & that your rego is current & that you have an address, somewhere.
The whole system is infuriating but you can't seem to get any sense from people within the system to do anything about it.
My daughter says it's all political, so I guess that's where we should start.
Maybe worth trying to get one of the pro-bono lawyers helping the illegal immigrants to look at it, or would that be wishful thinking?? or maybe the Aboriginal Legal Service?? they seem to have plenty of money, or maybe Senators Barnaby Joyce (Qld) or Nick Xenaphon (SA).
What about Tony Windsor or Rob Oakshott?? our glorious new Independents!!!
The mind boggles mate!!! might be better just to ignore the whole thing like the Police are doing. They know what the problems are but seem content to just turn a blind eye.

I have said for many years, in fact since I arrived from NZ, I cannot understand how we celebrate federation when we don't have one.
Drivers Licence and Car Registration should be federal, one for the whole country. It doesn't make sense and all the fees are so different. The whole systems is crazy. Its not just for us Grey Nomads. It affects a lot of other people as well. In fact everybody.

Example, my son had a Vic Licence given back after his horrendous truck accident. Moved to Qld to be with his ex, bought a new car up there so had to change his licence to Qld and car also registered in Qld.
It didn't work out so he came back to Vic, changed his car rego to Vic but Vic Roads won't allow him to change his car licence back without all sorts of tests, eyes mainly.
The strange thing is he had a whole pile of driving tests and eye tests before Vic Roads gave him his licence back, went to Qld, changed it without question, came back and now they are questioning it. They arranged the tests the first time, he passed with flying colours, nothing has changed and he is driving on his Qld licence while waiting for Vic Roads to come to their senses.
B...... Idiots.

Are you talking about registration for vehicles and licences or are you talking about a national address for everything?
Australia Post provides a service for nomads where you have all your mail addressed to their service and they send it out to you wherever you are.
There are fees, of course, but it seems to be a great system for those of us who don't have family to depend on.
I send prepaid post bags to my daughter, and she sends my mail to me when there's enough.
I've tried to get her to simply readdress each envelope to where I am at the moment, because it's simple. When I'm on the road full time it's a bit trickier.

If you're talking about national rego for vehicles and licences to drive, bring on a national version, taking into account each state's laws, and there are many which vary from state to state. To get a national licence you just have to apply I believe. It's not too hard.

It's only the governments which refuse to give up control over us because they don't want to relinquish control over taxes and infrastructure. What would all those out of work, redundant pollies do with their time?
Remember when they regionalised local government and amalgamated councils?
Imagine if they did away with states and territories for a national government and the regional councils? There'd be anarchy in the corridors of power.

-- Edited by Cruising Granny on Friday 17th of September 2010 10:05:49 PM

Hi Guy N Gals,

Well I spoke to a friend who is a lawyer in Queensland the other evening, he said he knew of one case that was brought before the High Court of Australia in a bid to force exactly what we are after, a national Registration and licensing system, it failed dismally on the grounds of financial distress for the states.

His understanding is that the commonwealtn is working slowly towards a single licensing/registraltion system anyway, his advice was, by the time any headway was made the new system would be just about in place anyways.....

CG as for the national license, I have a National Heavy Vehicles License, that don't mean squat, and as for road rules we are supposed to be already nationalise with all those being the same state to state now. Yes there are some small differences but essentially we are all under the one set of road laws. What isthe service with Aust Post you speak of, I have done a quick look and can't find any thing....unless you are talking about mail forwarding, this is unreliable as I am finding after 8 months of using this service.

Wombat, they have had a card & agreement with the state s now for a few years that allows all defence and their employees to retain their rego and license until expiration, only then do they need to change, they have a card to carry that shows them as defence or defence families, but yes they are still fighting for that federal license and rego system as well.

The ideal situation would be the ability to have a postal address as your main address, eg...landbase australia locked bag etc etc etc.... this would solve all the issues, same same for centrelink and medicare, dva, etc....

I guess all resistance is futile, as they say you will comply mr smart......

Hoo Roo Happy Days
Grumps

We can't have uniformity that would be far to hard to administer and what would we do with all those ministers for transport and the empires they have spent years building . The mere thought of uniformity between the states is an offense equal to Treason so you best take this discussion behind closed doors for fear of the thought police raiding the forum site office.