Re: [NSW] Bondi Beach Line Scrapped

[Dave Proctor <david@sd3.mailbank.com>]

On Tue, 22 May 2001 13:42:28 +1000, "David Bennetts"
<davibenn@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>
>"Michael" <usenet.spam@gunzel.net> wrote in message
>90A98889AgunzelT333@203.50.2.80">news:90A98889AgunzelT333@203.50.2.80...
>> David Bennetts <davibenn@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
>> <BHkO6.2080$Ld4.94085@ozemail.com.au>:
>>
>> >Rebuild the
>> >volleyball stadium on top and you'd really have the NIMBYs squealing!
>>
>> There should be a law against NIMBYism.
>>
>> The BNIMBYs (Broadmeadows NIMBYs) are now whinging about noise from
>> Melbourne Airport and it's associated flight paths. Why? They built their
>> houses under the flight path, like duh.
>>
>
>Tullamarine was really out in the sticks when it was built, wasn't too long
>before the houses reached out nearby and the whinges started, I haven't got
>any sympathy either.  Let them buy some earplugs or put noise insulation in
>their homes - at their expense, not like at Sydney where passengers are
>slugged $3.40 noise tax.

It's not a tax, it is a levy. If it was a tax they would not be able
to put 34¢ GST on it. Since it is a levy, they can (and they do).

Dave