You guys should not be reading the Sydney Morning Herald. Next you'll be quoting Alan Jones as some pillar of wisdom.
Bottom line - we're the most over, taxed over regulated western nation in the world, and taxes and levies just go into one big coffer. Your rego does not pay for roadworks. The government decided how much it's going to spend on roadworks depending on how much we whinge about potholes.
That is all.
God people are stupid.