“It’s a really big issue,” the Wodonga 19 year-old said before highlighting anomalies between how many passengers P-platers can carry.

“I was taking friends to Corowa the other day and we had to take two cars because we were not sure whether it goes by the licence or the state you’re in.

“One of my friends with a NSW licence was taking friends to Beechworth and she was told it goes by licence, not the state she’s in but she was in Beechworth and got a $600 fine because of the state she was in.”

Ms Sidoti helped highlight the issue on Thursday afternoon to motorists driving into Wodonga on the Lincoln Causeway.

She was part of a flash mob organised by independent candidate for Benambra Jacqui Hawkins.

Ms Sidoti said it was important issue for young people and showed them how politics intersects with daily life.

“It’s good to be like maybe I should enrol and take the election seriously and not put in a blank ballot,” she said.

“It’s an extra bit of stress when you’re on the road.”

Junction Support Services L2P program volunteer mentor Pam Roth decided to support the gathering after hearing of it on the radio on Thursday morning.

“I think there should be federal laws,” she said.

“In NSW the plates have to be external on the car, in Victoria you can go internal, it’s silly things like that, it just needs to be standardised.”

Ms Roth said rules which meant P-plates in NSW and Victoria had different maximum speeds on the Hume Freeway were also frustrating.

“To be (limited to) 90 and passed by trucks it’s very nerve wracking,” she said.

Ms Hawkins hopes the appointment of a cross border commissioner in Victoria will result in anomalies being resolved.