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Flat White

The Gold Coast’s unAustralian ‘view tax’

29 July 2024

2:47 PM

29 July 2024

2:47 PM

Labor’s cost of living crisis and expanding black hole in the Treasury has led many to believe that they’ll soon be taxing the air. After all, what is ‘carbon tax’ but a tax on the building blocks of life?

What no one expected was for a local council to leap straight over carbon and instead impose a tax on … the view.

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