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Housing supply in Wodonga
The Border Mail
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5/2/2025
WATCH: Benambra MP Bill Tilley's cartoon addresses the "inaction" over Wodonga housing supply
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Today's story, the Pied Piper of Murraytown.
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Murraytown's streets were abuzz with despair.
00:14
The mayor stood fuming, hands in the air.
00:16
We need 45,000 houses right now, not later, not someday.
00:21
We need them, and how?
00:23
The current precinct structure plan is for 6,000 homes.
00:26
How in the hell is that number going on?
00:28
The townsfolk all grumbled.
00:30
They shuffled their feet.
00:31
Their dreams of new houses lay dead in the street.
00:35
Taxes were strangling.
00:36
Fees were too steep.
00:37
Pipes?
00:38
What pipes?
00:39
Not a trickle.
00:40
Not a seep.
00:41
There's no water pipes.
00:43
He'll pay the land tax.
00:44
And what about stamp duty?
00:46
We can't connect gas.
00:47
It cost $373,000.
00:50
Oh, what a sight.
00:51
To build in Victoria, that just isn't right.
00:54
Then from the crowd stepped a stranger so bold.
00:57
In a coat that burned orange, like fire, like gold.
01:01
Her hair was a tangle, her smile full of glee.
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And slung on her back was a flute.
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Wait and see.
01:08
I can fix this.
01:12
The Pied Piper chined.
01:13
Her eyes alight.
01:14
Her voice well-timed.
01:15
The mayor cheered.
01:17
His worries flew.
01:19
Oh, Piper.
01:19
Dear Piper.
01:20
We trust in you.
01:22
Her music is magic.
01:23
Her wisdom is grand.
01:25
She holds all the answers right in her hand.
01:28
With friends in high places and plans set to go,
01:31
she'll lead us to greatness.
01:32
Just follow the flow.
01:33
She gave no reply.
01:36
Just lifted her flute.
01:37
And played a sweet song.
01:39
Oh, the notes were astute.
01:41
A melody soft, yet swirling and grand.
01:44
It swept through the town like a magical hand.
01:47
The people all blinked.
01:48
Their worries took flight.
01:50
Like mist in the morning.
01:51
Like stars in the night.
01:53
Follow me, whispered the woman in tune.
01:56
And follow they did, neath the spell of her room.
01:58
In orange they marched, every buyer and renter.
02:01
Each weary and teary tax-burdened mentor.
02:04
They skipped through the town in a trance, in a line.
02:08
Past half-built houses, past for-sale signs.
02:11
She led them all down to the great Murray shore.
02:14
Where water lay waiting so wide evermore.
02:17
The music swelled higher, it danced in the air.
02:20
And into the river they walked without care.
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One step, then two, then three, then four.
02:28
Till the river embraced them, and they were no more.
02:32
Not a scream, not a sound, not a struggle or shout.
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Just rippling waves as the song faded out.
02:40
The piper just smiled, her task now complete.
02:44
She slung up her flute, turned heel in the street.
02:47
With a hum on her lips and a swing in her stride,
02:49
she vanished, just gone, with the evening tide.
02:54
And Murraytown, well, it's problems remain.
02:58
No crisis, no housing, just silent refrain.
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