Reg Plates Slogans Updated

Canberra really is "The Bush Capital" – at least according to our new number plate slogan.

The city's long-time nickname claimed more than 1600 votes and beat out "Ngunnawal Country" (1058 votes) and "Driving the Nation" (479 votes) to become the new catchcry of the territory's number plates.

Meanwhile, the widely mocked "Feel the Power of Canberra" will be phased out along with four others after Canberrans voted overwhelmingly to keep "Canberra – The Nation's Capital" out of the existing five slogans.

"Age Friendly City" attracted just 45 votes to be the most unpopular slogan on offer, while "Feel the Power of Canberra" fared a little better, with 383 votes.

Chief Minister Andrew Barr announced the new slogan on Tuesday after a long-running public voting competition that inspired both delight and derision nationwide.

The government received almost 2000 suggestions for a new slogan after opening submissions last October.

After almost a month of polling, and more than 8000 votes, the three leading slogans were 'Canberra - The Bush Capital', 'Canberra - Ngunnawal Country' and 'Canberra - Driving the Nation'.

Among the existing plates, 'Canberra - The National Capital', 'Canberra - Heart of the Nation' and the Parliament House image were the hot favourites.

"Canberrans will be able to choose between the two slogans when they come into circulation later this year," Mr Barr said in a statement.

"I'm encouraged by the enthusiasm of Canberrans who engaged in this process and the Government will look at further ways we can have similar discussions with the community in the future."

"Canberra – the Nation's Capital" has remained the territory's most popular plates despite being around since 1979, still decorating more than 133,000 vehicles.

"Canberra – Heart of the Nation" is the slogan of choice for almost 59,000 vehicles, while nearly 43,000 read "Celebration of a Century".

The new number plate slogan will go into circulation later this year.

New number plate slogan:

Canberra – The Bush Capital (1671 votes, 38 per cent)
Ngunnawal Country (1058 votes, 24 per cent)
CBR – Driving the Nation (479 votes, 11 per cent)
CBR – Australia's Cool Capital (366 votes, 8 per cent)
Australia's Meeting Place (315 votes, 7 per cent)
CBR – For All Seasons (140 votes, 3 per cent)
CBR – Green and Clean (118 votes, 3 per cent)
CBR – City of Diversity (87 votes, 2 per cent)
CBR – Brilliant Possibilities (70 votes, 2 per cent)
CBR – An Active City (65 votes, 1 per cent)
Total votes : 4369

Existing plate slogan to keep:

Canberra – The Nation's Capital (2292 votes, 50 per cent)
Canberra – Heart of the Nation (1101 votes, 24 per cent)
Parliament House (image) (746 votes, 16 per cent)
Feel the Power of Canberra (383 votes, 8 per cent)
Canberra – Age Friendly City (45 votes, 1 per cent)

How close a series of letters or numbers are to a real name of word: if the match quality is high (and the numbers and letters are very convincing in making a popular word), the value of the registration plate will be higher. This means that a match like 5IMON, for the name Simon, will be worth a lot more than a more obscure set of letters and numbers that are not as convincing a match, such as S17 MMM for the name Sam.

The style of the plate: this means establishing if it is a new-style plate, an older-style format or if it is dateless or Irish, for instance. Other options are that it is a prefix-style plate or a suffix-style plate. New-style number plates, which have been produced since 2001, tend to be the least valuable because they are a bit less appealing to some collectors, plus the rule about not having plates that are newer than your car can also come into play, putting people off from buying a newer-style plate for their older car. Prefix-style number plates, which were in production between 1983 and 2001 can be more popular as more vehicles are entitled to have those licence numbers, and they may have fewer characters in total. Suffix-style plates, issued from 1963 to 1983 are relatively rare, which means they can attract higher prices than prefix-style plates and newer designs. Dateless number plates, also known as cherished number plates, were produced between 1903 and 1963 and are nearly always the most valuable number plate configurations; they have fewer digits and their dateless nature means that people can hide the age of their car. Irish number plates are similar to dateless number plates, especially because they don’t have a year identifier. They also tend to be cheaper than other types of vehicle registration plates.

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