Date: May 20, 2025Author: cairnsnews 31 Comments
A MASSIVE rally filled the Melbourne CBD in front of Parliament House today, indicating the depth of alarm over the Allan Labor Party government’s move to rip hundreds of millions of dollars out of rural communities to allegedly pay for the state’s new merged fire service.
In fact the state is in serious debt of more than $167.6 billion and the $600 million extra expected to be extorted via the fire services levy is the same figure as the state’s girl Treasurer Jaclyn Symes announced as the “Budget surplus”.
Concurrently and perhaps not coincidentally, Nationals leader David Littleproud has confirmed his party won’t be re-entering a Coalition agreement with the Liberal Party – itself an earth-shaking event in Australian politics.
Attempting to deflect fear over the development, Labor’s acting Prime Minister Jim Chalmers called the Coalition a a “nuclear meltdown” that is a “smoking ruin” … ha, ha, get it?
Chalmers went on to brag that his central bank sponsor, the RBA, had lowered interest rates, saving mortage borrowers paying of half a million dollars $79 a month – a handy amount to pay Labor’s higher fuel and soaring electricity, food prices, child care, bankrupt Victoria Labor’s shocking fire services “levy” and endless other fees and charges to pay for the hordes of fat cat Canberra and state capital bureaucrats.
Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie told Sky News yesterday that the Liberals’ new leader Sussan Ley could not guarantee key non-negotiable policies, which included nuclear energy, the Regional Australia Future Fund and divestiture powers, which relate to the corporate sector domination of the food industry and telecommunications.
Sussan Ley, as noted by Joel Jammal in the recent video we posted, is basically a female version of Malcolm Turnbull who fought Dutton on the internet censorship issue. Ley told Sky News at the time she was “all for X obeying the law” … “and we back her (the eSafety Commissioner) 100%”.
“She has no values, she’s literally ‘how do I climb the greasy ladder,” said Jammal. “And now she’s the one actually in control. And what does she believe? …. I’ll tell you what she believes, she is like a Malcolm Turnbull. This is a lady who was probably very excited about same-sex marriage being passed back in 2017.”
Ley, according to Jammal, is what George Christensen describes as the value-less side of Liberal politics driven entirely, like Labor, by the desire to get and hold power at any cost while keeping the big end of town happy.
“There’s no point discussing any other matters that would be included in a Coalition agreement if you can’t get past the first gate, and unfortunately for the Liberal Party and the Liberal leader she was unable to do that,” McKenzie said.
Old school dyed in the wool National Michael McCormick, whose electorate of Riverina neighbours Madam Ley’s big Riverina electorate, was trying to talk down the split, saying it could just be temporary.
The split was announced yesterday by the recently re-elected Nationals leader Littleproud, who has apparently been listening to Senator Matt Canavan and grassroots party members across the country dissatisfied by the direction of the Liberals, whose supporters have apparently bought into Teal ideology.
A swag of young Liberal women sitting as MPs and running as candidates are virtually indistinguishable from Teals, as our earlier story on the Bradfield split vote indicated.
Meanwhile, back in bankrupt Victoria, we cannot dismiss the fact that big rallies have been held against this state government before with little effect. The only way for the state’s farmers and rural communities to stop this fire levy is to use tactics that Labor people understand – go on strike and don’t pay it.
Already council representatives are publicly expressing concerns over their ability to collect this massively increased so-called fee that is said will cost farmers as much a $80,000. Council representatives told the ABC they were worried about having to launch legal processes to retrieve fees that farmers could or would not pay.
“Councils across the state are now tasked with collecting the new tax from ratepayers from July 1, despite many local government bodies vehemently opposing the tax,” ABC reported.
“Regional Cities Victoria (RCV) chairman Shane Sali said he was worried some residents would simply refuse to pay the new line item.” Can another rural revolt really pull of something drastic this time?
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