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As if we didn’t have enough reasons already. Like their extreme gobbledygook (otherwise known as the S.A.T Act) and the fact that you have to pay experts $200 an hour to interpret that same gobbledygook, their extreme unhelpfulness, their boringness (see gobbledygook), and the fact that they make Miss South Carolina Teen USA look logical

But wait there’s more! It seems that they think it’s perfectly OK to publish your full name and street address on the internet. Never mind if your middle name is Ignatious or Persephone and you didn’t want the whole world to know that

Meanwhile the Federal Government is spending millions of dollars on cyber safety for Australian familes, which presumably would include warning people not to put their addresses on the internet for every looney and his dog to read

I wrote to the S.A.T asking that my details be removed from cyberspace and they wrote back saying that this could only have been prevented had I given reasons under section 61 (4)

And of course we all know what that means…

Well of course we don’t know what that means because if there’s one thing the S.A.T excell at it’s petty bureaucratic gobbledegook

So I asked them what section 61 (4) of the Act exactly is. Do you think they could tell me? Oh no, that would be too helpful and obviously they are not going for any scout badges right now. Instead they sent me a url which I opened up, only to find a drop down box with a confusing selection of various legal schmegal acts, regulations, gazettes and pink spotted giraffes for all I know

So I said, look I can’t work out where the Act is and the S.A.T replied by attaching a copy of the Act and a curt little ‘for your future reference’ explanation of the  Act’s whereabouts on the aforementioned url

Finding this boring? Well imagine how I felt

So then I wrote an arduous letter to the S.A.T explaining why I wanted my name/address removed from the web, under section blah blah but BEFORE I sent it to them I asked if this letter might ALSO be published on the internet, with all my personal details. To be honest I was being a bit facetious by this stage and I didn’t actually think they would say yes. But lo and behold, they did say yes. They said they might even include extracts of my letter

Imagine you have written something along the lines of ‘Dear S.A.T, I don’t want my name and address on the internet because crime boss Vincente Fortunato is after me…’ What are they going to do with this information? That’s right, put it on the internet along with your name and address

Welcome to the curious world of the State Administrative Tribunal…