Losalini Rainima has just completed a nine-month stint in a NSW prison for driving without a valid licence. This surprising punishment is the result of her of her refusal to accept conditional bail or, following her lengthy remand in custody, a good behaviour bond, or, following her sentence, the conditions of parole. Her refusal in each case was, I assume, for the same reason as her refusal to accept NSW’s driving licence regime. As she told her magistrate:
God has given me a right that is given to me, it’s within me. … I have a right of passage. I have a right of movement. All living things are given graces; the birds fly, the fish swim, the kangaroo hops, and I’ve been given the graces to drive.
She speaks, of course, of a right that Victorians have under the Charter, albeit given to them not by God but by…
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