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Look, I never thought I'd see the UFU come on a Nats podcast. History will show that we haven't been friends. However, history also shows that I work with anyone if its in the best interests of my community.

Fortunately, I have an excellent relationship with our UFU representatives in Mildura, as well as our professional firefighters at Station 72 and our CFA staff & volunteers so we can have some very frank conversations.

Luke Alexander is a born and bred Merbein boy and now one of the firefighters at station 72 in Mildura. He loves it, You can see how much he loves it and he's also our UFU rep, so he certainly lets me know when things are right.

Do I agree with the politicisation of our emergency services, no. But the unions do have a lot of power with the Labor Government so when Luke wants to come and explain to you why this is such a bad idea, I opened the doors wide.

The Emergency Services Volunteers Levy is just another tax that the Allan Labor Government have dressed up to appeal to the goodwill that the community has for firefighters. But it's another tax and it's legislates cuts to the budgets of the CFA and FRV (Fire Rescue Victoria).

It will cost farmers 189% more on that fire services levy you get on your rates notice so local councils will cop the blame for it, meanwhile, there's provision for this to fund new appliances and bloated pay packets, but no guarantee it will come back to the communities it hurts the most.

It stinks and we're asking you to help us kill it.

Go to scrapthetax.com.au and sign the petition.

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