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[โ€“] autotldr@lemmings.world 0 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


They would take hours to clean and suture," says Dr Crozier, who is a former head of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons' National Trauma Committee.

But a coalition of different parties was pushing for change โ€” including many in the medical profession, like trauma surgeons who were witnessing the devastation firsthand.

"There were get-out clauses," says Mark King, an adjunct professor at QUT's Centre for Road Safety and Accident Research.

Terry Slevin, the CEO of the Public Health Association of Australia, says pubs and clubs argued random breath testing was "anti-business".

In 1982, for example, the NSW Australian Hotels Association president Barry McInerney called random breath testing "an imposition on the working class".

David Cliff, a former police officer and CEO of the Global Road Safety Partnership, says while it's not always popular, cutting speed limits has the ability to save lives in both regional and metropolitan Australia.


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