FORS credited the difference to the helmet laws. This assessment is biased. Including 1990 in the base period inflates the difference, but is wrong because the first helmets law was introduced in Victoria in mid-1990. As the last was in mid-1992, in the ACT, it is fairer to compare 1989 with 1993. More importantly, FORS ignored the decline in numbers of cyclists.
Democracy owns no king but the people.
Governments owe them the truth about the helmet laws. Only an open and independent inquiry can tell it. This article was written by Bill Curnow, and was published in The Canberra Times on 29 August 1998.