It is the fixed basic costs. Water rates $400, plus "parks charges" $1000, drainage $800. Then as with the bushfires you find out these bastards did not do the fuel reduction in the parks they were paid to do.
Municipal rates are close to $2000 base rate.
Gas because of scarcity and electric 'renewables' Landowners are the mugs paying.
The clowns marching and sitting on roads shouting extinction are students and unemployed. Otherwise they would not have time on their hands.
