Conspiracy of silence

Updated April 23 2018 - 9:09pm, first published July 2 2015 - 5:29pm

I note, with a degree of wonderment, that the recent ACT Budget – which includes a 9 per cent increase on rates; a 5 per cent increase on motor vehicle registration; increases of 5 per cent in local parking charges, and a host of other increases to other taxes and charges – has been greeted with a deafening silence. Compare this to the ACT response to 2013-14 federal government budget that was greeted with cries of "it's unfair; it's draconian" and a sort of "we'll all be rooned" mentality.

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