There’s a second mortgage hiding in your letterbox — one you can never pay off, never refinance, and never negotiate. For thousands of Melbourne homeowners, the total property tax bill has now crossed $10,000 a year.
Not the home loan. Just the privilege of owning the place. Council rates. A new levy that nearly doubled overnight. Waste charges. Land tax. All stacked on top of each other. Absolutely cooked. On 1 July 2025, the Victorian Government replaced the fire services levy with the Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund — and the residential rate jumped from 8.7 cents to 17.3 cents per thousand dollars of your home’s value.
Nearly doubled. In one year. On every home in the state. Port Phillip alone extracted $37.7 million — up 57% on the year before. And councils are furious — some threatened to flat-out refuse to collect it. One inner-city mayor said his job was not to do the state government’s dirty work.
Council rates alone have jumped 39% over the past decade nationally, and 4.9% in 2024. One Melbourne homeowner posted their costs: council rates up 73% in five years, insurance up 61%, zero change to what they actually receive. And the arrears pile tells you how many households are already drowning — $920 million unpaid statewide, with Melbourne’s arrears rate at 14.26%.
Nearly one in seven bills going unpaid. That’s not people being lazy. That’s families choosing between rates and groceries. The maths doesn’t maths, mate. One Victorian woman — Jane — let her $5,000 rates bill slip. With penalty interest stacked on top, it ballooned to $30,000. The council threatened to take her home. (ABC News) And of 44 Victorian councils, only 7 waived any rates at all for hardship — a combined $360,000 out of $3 billion charged. The help exists on paper. In practice, it’s basically invisible.
Council Rates in Queensland (QLD) — All 77 Councils | RateScope.
Data current as of 2024-2025 Financial Year.
https://ratescope.com.au/council-rates-qld/
What don’t people understand about “You will own nothing” technocratic NWO etc., it’s like watching sheep in a pen outside an abattoir, they’re milling around and bleating but no action, Looks like the time to run has passed, now it’s time to fight or die.
What a mess successive Victorian governments have made of a fine city, complacency did the rest.
People get the government they deserve. You probably need a tough-talking no nonsense guy in charge. Someone who cuts regulations, fires people, builds up the military, hard pushes economic regulatory change, etc, etc.
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But you don’t like that sort of leader, do you?, so pay your taxes and please stfu.
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Australia ‘most bloated bureaucracy in the world’
Economy suffocated by expanding public servant numbers.
CALL TO CANCEL COUNCILS.
Excerpt >The latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows that public sector wage bills increased by 8% nationwide in 2023-24 alone – now sitting at $232 billion.
9 May 2025
The urgent need to tackle and dismantle leeching bureaucracies is ever-present, especially with estimations that another 25,000 new public service jobs have been created since the Albanese government took power.
Will reckless spending ever be reined in?
BUREAUCRATIC MADNESS.
Australia’s government public service burden is getting out of control.
Let’s take a look at just how bad things have become.
The latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows that public sector wage bills increased by 8% nationwide in 2023-24 alone – now sitting at $232 billion.
There are 139 councils in Western Australia, 128 in New South Wales, 79 in Victoria, 77 in Queensland, 68 in South Australia, 29 in Tasmania and 17 in the Northern Territory.
“The level of duplication and triplication of state and federal roles is ridiculous,” said Dean Hurlston, President of Council Watch.
He is correct, it is ridiculous. From the top of government at a federal level, all the way down to the middle-of-nowhere councils rorting residents.
If we were to start anywhere, eliminating the third tier of government would do a great job in cleaning up some of this bloated spending of taxpayer money.
Councils that aren’t very popular across the country, no matter who you ask.
PEOPLE FED UP
There are countless examples of CROOKED COUNCILS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY: I’m sure everyone of you who is reading this has a story about your very own local area.
Full article >
https://crazzfiles.com/australia-most-bloated-bureaucracy-in-the-world/
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Institute of Public Affairs – Environment Protection Australia would increase the number of bureaucrats in the Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water portfolio by more than 80 per cent, to a total of more than 10,000 full time equivalent employees.
IPA RESEARCH NOTE
What the federal government’s proposed environment protection agency will cost to taxpayers.
JULY 2024
Saxon Davidson
Research Fellow
Key findings
• The proposed Environment Protection Australia agency would be the sixth most resourced agency in the federal government out of 137, based on 2022-23 financial year data, with estimated revenue from the federal government of $1.8 billion.
• Environment Protection Australia would increase the number of bureaucrats in the Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water portfolio by more than 80 per cent, to a total of more than 10,000 full time equivalent employees.
• This would make the environment portfolio the fifth largest federal government portfolio overall in terms of staffing.
• Total staffing expenditure for the proposed Environment Protection Australia would be almost $694 million, more than double the staffing expenditure at the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Full Paper >
https://ipa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IPA-Research-Note-July-2024-Admin-Cost-of-the-EPA.pdf
Council Watch VIC Melbourne City Council Budget breakdown 2-262-27:
https://www.councilwatch.com.au/post/6c040806\
Stop voting for & funding them you dumb zormies.
Very good, Magoo. I have already established that my local Geelong Council is an incorporated private trading entity, via Lawful Notice to several councils, namely: SURF Coast (neighbouring Geelong) and Swan Hill, VIC, whom I Noticed about their intention to sell the local saleyards, which are the lifeblood of the town. They packed it in after that LN, it seems, as a council-basher friend in the locality said that no-one had done anything similar. So looks like I dun it. Not hard, as an LN is a legal document, and if taken to Court has standing, as I would, given my history of activity related to the local council, and my win on the bike lanes contract here that I made them scrap.
I will post the Cairns News article again, as I am gobsmacked that our learned colleagues around the country have not used that info to beat up their own councils with:
https://cairnsnews.org/2024/01/09/council-watch-groups-bleat-about-unaccountability-but-reject-liability-solution/
Thanks, Magoo, for your excellent work, which I will be following up on. My buddy Ian ‘Slug Gate’ Cook will be very interested in this. Keep an eye out for him, as he is going up again in the VIC state elections this year-about Slug Gate, from Ian’s website:
https://iancook.com.au/sluggate-scandal
Qld Rail case overview and finding:https://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/other/HCASum/2015/11.html
Today the High Court unanimously held that Queensland Rail is a trading corporation within the meaning of s 51(xx) of the Constitution, with the consequence that the relations between Queensland Rail and its employees are governed by federal industrial relations law and not Queensland industrial relations law.
Queensland Rail operates as a labour hire company and provides labour used by a related entity, Queensland Rail Limited, in the operation of rail services in Queensland. Queensland Rail was established by the Queensland Rail Transit Authority Act 2013 (Q) and, by that Act, Queensland Rail “is not a body corporate” but it has all the powers of an individual to create and be made subject to legal rights and duties, and it may sue and be sued in its own name. The Act also provided for the relations between Queensland Rail and its employees to be governed by Queensland industrial relations law.
The High Court unanimously found that Queensland Rail is a trading corporation within the meaning of s 51(xx) of the Constitution and subject to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth). It followed that the provisions in the Queensland Acts which sought to apply Queensland industrial relations law to Queensland Rail and its employees were invalid.
So, folks, there you have it! All the councils watched this case very, very closely because they carry out trading activities and are NO different. They try to pass themselves off as a “body corporate” or “local government” as though we voted them in to place us in debt! But, with this finding from the high court, (thought it was the supreme was but was as high up the ladder as yu can go!) all it will take is someone with gumption to take it in and test it. They are just waiting for YOU to do it.
Claude: in 2018 I did a bit of research into local government, tapping into the Australian Local Government Association website, to find that that year they were seeking a referendum into (surprise, surprise) a referendum on constitutional recognition of local government. It never happened, because there had been two previously, and the three strikes rule seems to have applied-another failure and you don’t get another shot.
On that website the LALGA stated that the total take for all Aussie councils that year was $17.4 billion, which will be much more now given that so many apartments, etc., have been constructed in the ensuing years.
They’re not broke, they’re not legit, and even the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce as suspect because I sent Paul Guerra, the CEO of the MCC material about how I beat Geelong on their bike lanes contract and never even got a response back from the Chamber.
With that sort of effort it is no wonder the Footscray AFL club gave him the heave-ho!!!
What is needed is a good number of people in the same locality to refuse to pay! All stand together!! Or, this will equally work well. A good number of people pay teir “rates” directly in the fund of the Consolidated Revenue! Council WON’T be able to get it as they are a “trading entity” see 2015 Qld Rail case. COUNCILS ALL OVER Australia got very worried after this case as they conducted “trading activities” just like Qld rail (and every other railway). All it now needs is someone with the confidence to take just their one local council to the supreme court and challenge it based on the Qld rail case. It would be the end of these rates. I will post what the court held. But please, people in Vic, stand with your neighbours and include your workmates, all your grown family members and friends and take on yur local council. ANy one of the three things i’ve written here will affect them and starve them of money. But two of them in particular – paying the rates to consolidated revenue or taking the council to the court – will render them a department once again. The last onee, based on qld rail case will take down ALL councils!
With all that money they collect and they still sent the state broke!
Maybe if they stopped spending it on “cultural enrichment” like “Little Indias”, huge mosques and Hindu temple complexes and other outrageous woke pet projects that the real Australians DONT WANT they’d be able to keep the state afloat, they’d be able to build the homes they so desperately need, fund the hospitals and maybe FIX THE ROADS!
This delusional, self servicing and incompetent premier and her equally delusional goons are so out of touch and on the nose it’s no wonder that One Nation is charging ahead in the polls even though there’s no Victorian figurehead been announced.
I’m sorry Libs but that goes for you too. Jess Wilson seems to be just a younger version of Jacinta, a political plant by the big boys in the back rooms, still wet behind the ears and a big mistake.
You should have made Moira Deeming the head.
She’s got clout, experience, a moral compass and has met challenges and overcome them. She would have been the better pick.
Sorry but all your gooses are cooked.
Everybody in Victoria remembers very well what you all did to us during Covid and Karma is coming for you all big time.
A One Nation blood bath at the polls is just the beginning.
Here you go, Diana DB-as the other commenter said, councils are not government but private corporate trading entities lacking a contract with anyone.
Clive Edwards tells you that-and I told you that years ago, so some people are not listening, as my liability video tells you that councils can be claimed against, successfully.
But in any event, Clive first:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgLOFBZ2ZTs
Local councils rates, said the ATO many years ago, are property tax, which no corporate organisation has any legal or lawful (know the difference, do you?) ability to impose.
Jurisdiction, as with the Courts, can only be achieved via contract, as per my video on council rates:
https://rumble.com/v42f1ge-are-council-rates-legal-i-dont-think-so.html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_upp_a
Much more to say, but I will wait for the comments, except to say that Melbourne City Council needs to be prosecuted for the theft of allegedly ten million dollars of the COVID relief money intended for affected Melbourne CBD traders, those millions having been used to build more bike lanes to stuff up the MELB CBD even more.
When are we going to get a competent, independent and impartial Jury’s Judgment as to the legitimacy of Local Goverment?
If you really must pay rates pay it with a Bill of Exchange. It’s perfectly lawful.
These unlawful criminal corporations are demanding money with menace which is extortion.
Where’s Bob – go get them Obvious Bob and Pat from Vic – both great Victorians who we hope can work out something to stop this monstrosity destroying our people.
Under original constitutional law and two subsequent referendums, Local Councils are only corporations/businesses for profit, and are not a level of government, and therefore do not have any right to charge land tax or any other fees they dream up.
They pretend to be acting on behalf of State Governments, but this system is not Constitutional, and so it must be defended in a Common Law court, not an Admiralty court that has NO JURISDICTION ON ANY LANDMASSES, even when the ‘government’ claims it does.
The Law is the Law, and ignorance of it does not defeat it … SO WE HAVE BEEN TOLD.
Stand up for truthful law and order, and do not give in to government lies and deceit.
Government thrives on lies and deceit because it is run by individuals and entities that serve Satan as the ruler/owner of earth.
Freemasons, NWO/WEF, UN, EU,UK royals, Canberra ACT, are stealing your wealth with your approval and ignorance of the undercurrents of government.
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