AVal-AustralianLawReformCommission.docVIP

My native language is not English, so some odd wording or grammar may happen. Sorry for it. My name Oleksandr Valuyev I like to make public submission about some issues related to so-called Advanced Metering Infrastructure Project (AMI) or Smart meters in Victoria. Official webpage here: .au/ Problems with project and my ideas about changes in laws are listed below. I am happy to provide extra information on request. 1. AMI project affects peoples property rights. At the start the AMI should give people benefits, but later it became clear – people will pay for it. Link here: .au/about-smart-meters/reports-and-consultations/advanced-metering-infrastructure-cost-benefit-analysis/4.-analysis-of-costs-and-benefits-2008-2028 Over 2008-28, the AMI Program will result in net costs to customers of $319 million. This is a significant change from previous analyses of the AMI Program, the most recent of which suggested that the AMI Program would deliver $775 million of benefits. We were supposed to get benefits, but as soon as project passed point of no return the real price hit our wallets. For me it sounds as an old-fashion scam and nothing else. For strange reasons no one official investigated these changes in price and who profited from them from point of view criminal law. I understand we are talking about huge corporations and top-government officials, but their position does not exclude them from part of law which about scams and conmen. I believe every project like this must be investigated by default. No need for parliament inquiry, mass-media attention or like this. Just create law, according to which every project which really failed to deliver promised results must be investigated. Experts, authors, politicians who signed it - all they must be responsible and accountable for every cent they spend on failed projects. 2. AMI project puts our country security in risk. There are five distributors of electricity in Victoria. Only one of them (United Energy Distributi