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Speaker 1: The great dieconomy of local government. It's on display right here,

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Speaker 1: right now, Seemingly no one wants to address it. The

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Speaker 1: turnout in Taroga, what a joke, it was pathetic thirty

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Speaker 1: one percent. Latest example of us not giving a monkey's

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Speaker 1: is Toweronga no democracy because the last lot was so hopeless,

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Speaker 1: they got replaced by commissioners. And yet when given the

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Speaker 1: freedom to choose, the real winner is complacency. And yet

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Speaker 1: the biggest issue in our economy at the moment and

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Speaker 1: our battle with inflation, is what local councils. It is

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Speaker 1: also insurance, of course, but rates play an outsize role.

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Speaker 1: And why this non tradeable inflation were grappling with a

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Speaker 1: stuck at five point four percent. Tradeable inflation's virtually non existent.

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Speaker 1: But still we aren't cutting interest rates. We still aren't

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Speaker 1: breathing life into the economy. We're still living through recessionary

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Speaker 1: type misery. Why because people like councils are handing out

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Speaker 1: rate rises that have offered up by literally anyone else.

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Speaker 1: They would never see the light of day because they

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Speaker 1: would be out of business. So you see the connection.

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Speaker 1: They're aren't smartness, they know they can do whatever they like.

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Speaker 1: Ten percent eighty percent in some cases, in some areas

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Speaker 1: you're talking about one hundred percent are doubling. Now do

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Speaker 1: we like it? No, we do not. We gnash our

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Speaker 1: teeth and we moan and wing, you complain. And yet

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Speaker 1: what they have worked out is that they've got little

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Speaker 1: of anything to fear because no one's going to do

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Speaker 1: anything about it. You want proof, look at Towronga. I mean,

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Speaker 1: look at any local body election turnouts less than half,

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Speaker 1: sometimes less than a third. We literally don't care. It

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Speaker 1: was almost tragic last week when once again the Finance

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Speaker 1: Minister asked, pleaded, really pleaded with councils to do their

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Speaker 1: bit and contain their inflationary ways. Will they, of course not,

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Speaker 1: Why would they. They've got us by the balls because

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Speaker 1: we're lazy and complacent. Are the government done their bit

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Speaker 1: on spending? We're doing our bit by bleeding councils. Oh.

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Speaker 1: They claim a million different reasons for their actions, and

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Speaker 1: to be fair, some of it. I've got a bit

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Speaker 1: of sympathy with under investment. Yes it's a real issue.

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Speaker 1: But what they've done is seized the moment. They've played

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Speaker 1: on our weakness. They've jumped on the inflationary bandwagon and

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Speaker 1: charged the Bejesus out of us, and because we're slack,

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