Recently my wife ran into a spot of bother. At the motor registry to pay her overdue rego, she discovered that it was just past the grace period for late payments. Noting this, an officious clerk took sadistic bureaucratic pleasure in refusing to renew her registration without a fresh roadworthy certificate.
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Terry Barnes was a senior adviser to Tony Abbott in the Howard government.
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