Im with slasher and metro man.
It gets worse and worse. Try owning a boat or a car and using the way you would use them in any other country in the world!
The union movement has developed into a mass of people whose expertise is simply in putting yellow stickers on corners of anything lest someone bump into them. This has carried itself through to the highest levels of lawmaking.
It is very depressing to be in Australia from that perspective.
And yes, ludicrously expensive for basic things.