Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party / Lobby Group

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G'day All,

Last Wednesday night I attended the first meeting of the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party (AMEP) in Victoria. The purpose of the meeting was to officially establish the AMEP in Victoria and have some general discussion.

The two guys who will be running for the election in Victoria are realistic about their prospects of getting elected - not likely. In reality the AMEP will become a lobby group for motoring enthusiasts. (hopefully as strong as the motorbike lobby) and perhaps get elected next federal election.

The idea of the AMEP is to provide a united voice for all motoring enthusiasts, cars, bikes, boats etc. They spent 2.5 hours having a general discussion with everyone in the room (about 60 people from everywhere 4wd's street machines, retro rod club etc etc ) about issues that face our community from engineering to police harassment to public perception etc.

The guys running it seem to really have what I would call "the right" attitudes in regard to having cars as a hobby and making sure that legislation does not take our hobby away.

Whether you want to vote for them or not, I would recommend you consider spending $20 and joining the party so that you can be party of the lobby group and get all the updates etc. If you feel so inclined point all you other motoring mates to their website, the more of us there are the better.

http://www.australianmotoringenthusiastparty.org.au/

Cheers

Stewart