The sovereign citizen movement rejects the legitimacy of the government. Its fast-growing popularity has had authorities scrambling to get a handle on how far its tentacles have reached.

Unfortunately, Mr Oxby was persuaded by this theory during the seminar, which I infer from his evidence, was presented in a persuasive and charismatic manner."

He was ultimately fined $14,000.

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    Dude, the last 30 years in Australia have proved that private industry does not handle public services better than the government. Since you do not live in Australia, you cannot claim to be as informed on this as a local. I wish Americans would stop chiming in on the state of Australia as though they are experts. Your country has the worst healthcare system in the developed world.

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      Which is primarily the result of people being willing to pay way too much for those services. We have insurance here and since it comes out of our paychecks we don’t really think about it. The way to prevent $500 bandages or $1,000 ambulance rides is to refuse to pay it.

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        Man you just can’t get any first sentences right can you. Wrong again here. Completely.