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Get Your Eyes Off Our Right to Sue.

Watch out, Australia, the scumbag politicians are about to try to take away a God-given right for people to sue if they have been wronged.

Yup, according to the bean counters and pen pushers, it costs too much for people to have the right to legally penalise offenders and so the Perks Pigs are going to try to stop it.

The Canberra nose-in-the-troughers are hoping to replace the right to sue with an Accident Compensation fund that will dish out money to those claiming damages.

Of course, this would be capped - meaning you will never, ever get what you should get, or would have got by being able to sue.

Think about this true story. Your surgeon operates on a lump in your breast - only through negligence he cuts open the wrong one.

If you are in New Zealand, where the right to sue has been abolished, the doc gets off scot free and you get a paltry payout.

In Australia, where the right to sue exists, you can drag the idiot over the coals and get a reasonable financial penalty handed to him.

How about this. Your local council has repeatedly ignored requests to fix the pathway outside your home. One day you fall over, break your leg, miss work for four months and suffer financially.

In No-Sue Land you get buggerall, In Sue Land you can make sure the council does not forget its duty to local citizens by having to fork over big bikkies.

Now that doesn't mean Australia should go ferally litigious (a la Seppo-land), but removing people's ability to financially punish the criminally careless, or even downright dangerous, is not the answer.

It leaves the door open for the negligent to be careless with impunity, and the good folk of this nation left unprotected as once again a freedom and right is attacked by interest groups and bloody politicians.

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