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What the actual f**k is this about? 

https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/this-australian-city-wants-to-charge-people-to-work-on-their-cars

A $400+ permit, every 3 months, to work on your own car? 

Tell him he's dreaming. 

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There's a thread over on PF.com where this has already been beaten to death. I make this point only because the report that you're referring to is already out of date. They have walked back some of the silliness, including the need to apply for (and risk losing the application fee, if not granted) a permit to work on your own car on your own land. But there is still a lot of silliness left remaining.

Victoria is a f**king shithole. Has been since way before we started calling it Brackistan. f**king nimby woke Stalinist nightmare of a place.

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have they?

Link appreciated. I live in Casey.

I can see both sides of the argument in this case. There's a lot of sketchy stuff going on. There needs to be a clear definition of what this is supposed to be IMO. I wager the intent was to be a broad sweeping brush against people who have 4 cars up on blocks on their front lawn, not someone who services their own car behind their own gate on a weekend bothering probably nobody.

But it'd be hard to legislate the difference there.

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Is this not just about people wrecking, and storing, multiple cars in their front yard?

I now a tow truck driver that was contracted by the council to clean up housing commission front and rear yards in houses and unit car parks

I'm all for working on, and doing maintenance on your car in your garage or driveway, but some people definitely take the piss 

There's one house locally to me that I walk past regularly where the front yard and driveway looks like a wreckers, multiple cars in various stages of being stripped, and the yard looks like all of fluids are basically dumped on the ground

I may be wrong, but it seems that the initial reports, which I've seen nothing actually official about yet, may be getting taken out of context, like alot of the latest "the sky is falling" stuff found on the youtubes for clicks

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An updated post here.

Sounds to me like there's definitely a bit of sketchiness here. 

Old mate with 10 rusting Torana's in the front yard might be more who they're focussed on. (For right or wrong).

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Sounds like it may all just be some baseless outrage stoked by the carexplore guy? As in the linked social media outrage on facebook just goes back to carexplore as a source again.

Further shown by the council response that nothing actually has changed:

"The Private Land Use Permit has been part of the Casey Community Local Law for a number of years. It's important to clarify that this permit is not new, and no changes have been made to the permit or the Local Law in relation to the permit."

The full council response in Prank's link sounds reasonable to me. Saying that as someone who neither lives there nor has a front yard to call their own :D 

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On 1/6/2025 at 6:11 PM, soviet_merlin said:

Sounds like it may all just be some baseless outrage stoked by the carexplore guy? As in the linked social media outrage on facebook just goes back to carexplore as a source again.

Further shown by the council response that nothing actually has changed:

"The Private Land Use Permit has been part of the Casey Community Local Law for a number of years. It's important to clarify that this permit is not new, and no changes have been made to the permit or the Local Law in relation to the permit."

The full council response in Prank's link sounds reasonable to me. Saying that as someone who neither lives there nor has a front yard to call their own :D 

Hi soviet_merlin,

We appreciate your concern regarding this possibly being some sort of PR/Political hype, I assure you that is not the case, I wish we could claim something like that, but in this case, we merely reached out for comment on the basis of the outrage we too felt, as those heavily in the automotive industry. Ps. the original source in the social media post is CarExpert not CarExplore. 

 

Best,

CE.

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On 11/01/2025 at 12:35 AM, CarExplore.com.au said:

Hi soviet_merlin,

We appreciate your concern regarding this possibly being some sort of PR/Political hype, I assure you that is not the case, I wish we could claim something like that, but in this case, we merely reached out for comment on the basis of the outrage we too felt, as those heavily in the automotive industry. Ps. the original source in the social media post is CarExpert not CarExplore.

My apologies, I stand corrected. Thanks for registering to mention this! And thank you for actually reaching out to the council to clarify. This is the sensible thing to do and the opposite of what I was alluding you were doing.

I may have seen too much outrage and hate being fueled on the internet and it has made me a somewhat cynical old man. Sometimes it is easy to forget that there are real people behind websites and accounts.

In my defence, CarExpert and CarExplore do read quite similarly at a glance. I shall try and do better in the future.


(Please stick around to get the latest scoops on dealing with old Nissan shitboxes :D )

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