Harold Scruby

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Harold Scruby is the Chairman and CEO of the Pedestrian Council of Australia and Ausflag.

1 Pedestrian Council of Australia
2 Controversies
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Pedestrian Council of Australia

The Pedestrian Council of Australia campaigns for road safety in Australia, being particularly active in New South Wales and Victoria. A stated goal of the organisation is the representation of the rights of Australian pedestrians.

Some of the changes in laws or government policy that have been proposed in the name of the Pedestrian Council of Australia are unrelated to pedestrians. One example of this is a proposal to have speed limits lowered on Freeways, where pedestrians are not permitted.

[edit] Controversies

Harold Scruby has been involved in a number of controversial incidents.

In 1986 he allegedly collided with a jogger in his Mercedes-Benz but was acquitted of the charge of wanton driving after the magistrate found the jogger to be responsible for the collision^[1]

He has also called for the removal of tariff reductions for 4WDs based on his belief that 4WDs are the most dangerous cars on the road ^[2].

During the 1999 referendum on an Australian Republic, he called for British migrants who had not taken out Australian Citizenship, but were eligible to vote in the referendum, to be prevented from voting claiming they would naturally vote against removing the Queen as Australia's head of state. During the time of the referendum Scruby also spearheaded a campaign for school students to submit their designs for an alternative national flag.

He was also well known for his many TV discussions with ex-Victorian RSL President Bruce Ruxton on the issue of Scruby’s long, but (to date) unsuccessful, campaign to change the Australian flag.