Thursday, 29 May 2025

Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund

Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (09:53): Labor’s egregious emergency services tax is causing outrage in our regions and in our cities. Sung to the tune of American Pie, Grassmere’s CFA captain John Houston sings:

A long, long time ago,

I can still remember how the CFA made us feel so proud.

And I knew if we had our say,

We’d keep the levy far away,

But now the storm is rolling in the crowd

But Jacinta came in with her plan,

A shiny tax across the land,

Said it’s for our safety,

But it smells like revenue lately.

John ends with:

This’ll be the day her polls die.

I agree wholeheartedly with John. Three billion dollars over four years – this appalling tax grab impacts the whole of our state from the city suburbs to our country towns. It means a 150 per cent increase for our farmers. Every Victorian who owns a home, a business or a rental property will be slugged with an additional tax because Labor cannot manage money. The Nationals and Liberals in government will scrap the tax.