Tuesday, 13 May 2025

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Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund

Rikkie-Lee TYRRELL
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Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund

Rikkie-Lee TYRRELL (Northern Victoria) (13:57): Around 300 members of the CFA and farming communities from all over regional Victoria have gathered today on the steps of Parliament to protest the Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund. This levy will hit our rural Victorians with a brutal hike in an already significant tax to our landowners. Yet again it is regional Victorians being targeted by a financially irresponsible, city-centric Labor government, and this needs to stop.

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