Placing families in further financial distress by adding to the already high cost of living. Nurses still fighting for a pay rise to be in line with other states. I suggest you make better choices with the funds you have and considering the huge number of new rate payers you will have through new estates will increase your finances considerably.

As a pensioner it is hard enough with the current rates. I pay fortnightly but constantly get letters of demand for more. Council will not allow us to sub divide or have more than 1 dwelling, which would be the sensible way to solve the housing crisis and allow pebsioners who worked since their teens to survive as we do not benefit from having lifelong super. No all baby boomers are filthy rich as the media keeps saying. Down sizing to town is not an option when the prices in town are outrageous and we could not rent while waiting for sale of property which takes years out here and then you have to battle young rich people on massive salaries to try to get rental as a pensioner. The rates increases will only leave the option of not eating