Warrnambool's rally against the emergency services levy

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Thousands of CFA trucks, members and supporters gathered on the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne on Tuesday, May 20, 2025 but those who couldn't make it have taken to the main streets of Warrnambool and Camperdown.

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00:00Rural communities are the backbone of this state.

00:04The farmers are the backbone, the people that live in the shops, the people that run the supermarkets,

00:10and the butchers, the schools, all those sorts, the bus drivers, they are the backbone of the rural community.

00:17And the backbone of the rural community feeds those losers in Melbourne who think they can walk all over the top of us.

00:24So we fight. We fight. We keep going. We do not forgive up the cause.

00:30We drive out that gate with a clear vision that we're going to keep going until at least the next election.

00:35We will vote them out and we'll put in a party that's going to support us, look after us and respect us.

00:54We're fighting the Ellen Labor government tax that's going to tax farmers big time.

01:08Then they go out and fight the fires.

01:11So we're just doing a big protest to show that we care for the farmers.

01:18It affects everyone. So every household has got to pay this dirty tax for their waste of money.

01:29They need to do it fair enough for the tax, but they're not to overtax farmers that actually go out and fight the fires.

01:37They need to do it.

01:52Well, I got it for the thousand dollars to death.

01:56I don't get it, but I don't it.

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