{"id":13506,"date":"2025-07-22T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13506\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:44:09","slug":"mum-told-her-name-is-too-offensive-for-personalised-number-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13506\/","title":{"rendered":"Mum told her name is too offensive for personalised number plate"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Queensland mother has been left confused and disappointed after being denied the chance to purchase personalised number plates bearing her name.<\/p>\n

Ever since Indica Bradford first got her driver’s licence, she planned to buy herself personalised number plates.<\/p>\n

After years searching her name on their website to confirm it was still available, she eventually placed her order with Personalised Plates Queensland.<\/p>\n

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Ever since Indica Bradford first got her driver’s licence, she planned to buy herself personalised number plates. (A Current Affair)<\/p>\n

“Everyone has personalised plates and I could get my full name because it’s so unique. So I was really excited about that for ages,” she told A Current Affair.<\/p>\n

“I bought my new car, and then yeah, I thought I’ll finally get them, and it was still available so I put them on lay-by.”<\/p>\n

But a few weeks later, her deposit was refunded and she received a phone call telling her the plates she wanted were deemed offensive by the Department of Transport and Main Roads and would not be accepted.<\/p>\n

“The person from PPQ told me it’s a strand of marijuana, so that’s why they’ve deemed it inappropriate,” she said.<\/p>\n

Bradford was given the birth name Indica by her mother who had heard it somewhere else.<\/p>\n

Both Indica and her mother had no idea her name had another meaning. (A Current Affair)<\/p>\n

“She loved it for years and then when she finally had me, she named me the name she loved,” Bradford said.<\/p>\n

Both Bradford and her mother had no idea her name had another meaning.<\/p>\n

“I think the majority of Australia would probably be the same. They wouldn’t even know what it meant. It’s just someone’s unusual name,” Bradford said.<\/p>\n

She is calling on the Department of Transport and Main Roads to reverse its decision and let her have her plates.<\/p>\n

“I’m not trying to offend anyone. It’s just my name, yeah, my legal name, on my birth certificate.”<\/p>\n

FULL TRANSPORT AND MAIN ROADS STATEMENT<\/p>\n

All personalised plate content is assessed by Personalised Plates Queensland against several criteria prior to being approved for sale.<\/p>\n

Plates that do not meet the criteria are not approved for sale.<\/p>\n

Personalised plate policies are updated to reflect current community and social norms and to meet Queensland drivers’ expectations.<\/p>\n

While most plate combinations are approved, a small percentage are declined. In most cases, customers are happy to work with PPQ to find an alternative that meets their intent while also aligning with policy.<\/p>\n

This particular plate combination at the time was deemed inappropriate in relation to its interpretation as promotion of illegal drugs or criminal activity.<\/p>\n

The customer can contact the Department of Transport and Main Roads to seek a formal review of the request to purchase this combination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Queensland mother has been left confused and disappointed after being denied the chance to purchase personalised number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-13506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}