native pepper wrote:

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_wombat_ wrote:

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i think they are following the Tassie option, ony option for us is to boycott Victoria, I will spend my money in other states, BUT if Vic gets away with this then other states will follow and the arse will fall out of the caravan industry IMHO.

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Tas has had camping fees for national parks for many years, it has made no difference to free camping at all. In fact there are more and more free camping spots in Tas every year and lots more than anywhere else of the same area. If you want to stay in our parks a lot, you can get a yearly pass which is really cheap. That lets you stay as long and as many times as you like and the facilities get better each year.

The growing political trend is user pays, profit growth is the only mantra the current political system follows and they couldn't care less for the people, parks of facilities, it's all about profit growth. Once the political ideologues have sold off everything the people owned, like they have done with everything else. They will privatise the operation of national parks and the people will pay the cost of that, by subsidising the corporate world with our money so they can make more profits.

Just look at every service they have privatised, prices spiraling out of control and services diminishing. Doesn't matter which faction of the lib/lab party are in control, we get the same outcome from them all. Yet people actually vote for them, then complain of the worsening outcomes they get year after year.

We have never stayed in NP,s so it doesn't effect us, but we get what we vote for and I don't vote for any of them. They are already talking about making the Hume, Princes and other major intra and interstate highways toll roads and tendering it out. But the people will still pick up the bill for upgrades, maintenance and emergency services. Just as happens will all privatised roads and services, we pay and they take the profits.

 

 

-- Edited by native pepper on Thursday 13th of February 2014 10:48:56 AM

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 I cannot see why you quoted my post, I did not say Tassie had free NP, I repeat, "i think they are following the Tassie option, only option for us is to boycott Victoria, I will spend my money in other states, BUT if Vic gets away with this then other states will follow and the arse will fall out of the caravan industry IMHO."