I watched helmet laws unfold in WA in 1982 and was all in favour of it. I was wrong, cycling faltered, less people rode and deaths and injury percentages did not change. Infrastructure, demotorisation, and humanising streetscapes increase safety for pedestrians and cyclists. Compulsory helmet law support continued motorisation of cites, favouring an industry where billions of dollars have been spent over more than fifty years. All we now have is a increasingly motor vehicle friendly environment, with isolated humanised areas. Sending a message of fear of walking and cycling. Helmet choice is part of redressing this imbalance, readily available data proves death and injury rates fall without this compulsion.

I do empathise with the people under draconian state control where it does not belong. Please recognise the same "Dictator" approach over our water supplies, in the ABOVE Question. Due to the far larger negative impact on general wellbeing, I advise you to save your precious votes for Geoff Pain's Fluoride - poisons babies, and lowers YOUR IQ Question, above. Please.

I remember how Queensland was a police state in the eighties. Thanks to mandatory bicycle helmet laws it is far worse today than ever. It's government intervention gone mad. I want the right to choose just like 98% of the world enjoys. These laws have destroyed any chance we've had of developing a large-scale bicycle culture. Refine our bicycle helmet laws to include the freedom of choice for adults. It's a basic right that would have so many benefits for our bike share, traffic congestion, the environment and our health.

We'd all be safer on our bikes if there were lots more of us. Helmets keep people off their bikes, make bikes look dangerous and encourage bad behaviour by riders (invulnerability myth) and drivers (resentful of cool dudes on the road looking aggressive). Queensland would save on health costs if more people cycled more often, less heart disease, less diabetes, etc etc. All for the sake of a mythical helmet protection. And I've been riding daily for 40 years, had a few scrapes, but never bumped a helmet... If I had a bad car incident, the helmet would be totally useless - a car at 60 k wipes out any known helmet (though a car at 30 would be easier to avoid - but you buggers in govt won't countenance lower speed limits will you????)

The Liberal Democratic Party is the only Australian political party with an official policy opposed to mandatory helmets and other damaging government interference in our lives. Joining the LDP sends a clear message to our elected Labor/Liberal dictatorship that we are not happy with them and the way they treat us - send that message today http://ldp.org.au/get-involved/join-online

Dublin has no helmet laws. Their bike share has had 2.5 million trips and no head injuries. Their traffic and road conditions are worse than Brisbane's. London has no helmet laws. Their bike share has over 6 million trips and no head injuries. Their traffic is much worse than Brisbane's. Why does the premier think that what works in the rest of the world can't work in Queensland?

Helmet law needs in the least to be amended to allow some common sense back into it. After all the bike was such an important means of transport for 120 years before all encompasing helmet law made it so awkward for ordinary daily use. The law was really an easy solution that would not bother motorists. While we were congratulating ourselves that we had saved lives, other countries looked after the essentials like separated lanes but also required motorists to be deferential around cyclists. The Netherlands reduced a death rate of 457 in 1970 to 23 by 2009 for their school aged kids by doing these kinds of things and avoiding helmets totally. We need to learn from them and get out of our helmet centred mentality.

here here. imagine how many people would ride if they weren't obliged to wear helmets? the citycycle schemes simply will not work unless the helmet issue is solved. who carries a helmet round in their handbag?