Sunnybank named and shamed on National TV by 'A Current Affair' and 'Today Tonight' — "Australia's Worst Drivers"



Sunnybank, QUEENSLAND—Sunnybank has been named and shamed on National TV by A Current Affair and Today Tonight, dubbing the suburb as home to "Australia's Worst Drivers".

Brisbane southside suburb Sunnybank has been under scrutiny in recent years for being the Australian capital of bad driving. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, drivers in Sunnybank are more likely to cause and/or be killed in a car accident than anywhere else in the country—by a significant margin of 540-percent. This figure is tripled for Toyota Camry drivers.

With public opinion of the suburb at an all-time low, William Ho-Cheung Wang, acting Mayor of Sunnybank, is set to implement an Incentive Program to get bad drivers off its roads, by offering a Free Can of Baby Formula in exchange for their International/Overseas-issued Driver License, in the hopes that it will clean up the suburb's poor reputation.

The Bokchoy was given a draft document of the eligibility criteria for the Baby Formula exchange (subject to change by actual date of implementation, 1 April, 2016).

According to the Incentive Program, the applicant must be the registered owner of one of the following car makes:
  • Toyota Camry
  • Mercedes Benz (any Model)
  • BMW (any Model)

The applicant's residential address must be within the following postcodes:
  • 4109 (Sunnybank, Sunnybank Hills, Macgregor, Robertson)
  • 4112 (Kuraby)
  • 4113 (Eight Mile Plains, Runcorn)
  • 4116 (Calamvale, Stretton)

Mr Wang, who holds a stake in multiple southside Mercedes Benz dealerships, also mentioned he hopes anticipates some people would purchase a new car in order to satisfy the application criteria: "It's ok, we will approve it."