What about the poor guy that has a old tinny worth 1000 bucks..to register it for $223 is a laugh.....gov need money for there stimulis package i suppose!

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With increases like that, the WA government needs to start providing better facilities.

If such an increase is happening, then the revenue must be guaranteed to be spent on recreational boating facilities.

nothing more than a tax collection means to pay for their other squanders....
your chap with a $1000 tinny, if it's under 5m will be paying around a $100 a year for the usage of it!!!!

people think cause you got a boat your rich!!! and there for need to be taxed more and more and more....

loads of people that are not rich have boats, some have built their boats by sweat, blood and tears over the years, to now be slogged huge fews every year.
I don't see caravan owners being taxed heavy...they luxury items, don't see grey-nomad motor-homes/buss's getting a 100% tax increase to cover for the road stop sites etc they want...

We pay already to use a ramp and car-park.... every time we go out!!!at most major ramps around the metro area.
we pay for mooring fees at Rotto, nothings free their either.

What free jetties or wharf space does this DPI offer to you????

how about gofer tax to cover all the lanes and ramps for the granny gofer riders on their little scoots around town...maybe they need a tax too...
and all those bloody baby only parking bays... they should pay tax to for the extra sprogs they bring into the world and taking up parking spaces .... :-)

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The people of WA have spoken I'm afraid and now we see the results. If we are forced to tollerate razor gangs etc going through essential services departments like Health and Police well then forget about any increase in services for the struggling boaties out there. Perhaps we should also talk about the hikes in electricity etc.

Personally, I think you are showing some degree of insensitivity when you bring the pensioners and young mothers and their so called "sprogs" into this topic. I support your views with respect to tarrif hikes but I don't support statements about elements of society that really do struggle or have in fact earned the right to quality accessibility services.

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Could accept the hike in fees,if I could see the justification for them. To tax people purely on the fact they have a boat is wrong. Like most We have worked bloody long and hard to be able to afford our boat, paying a heap of tax on the way.

Give us something back in return to see where our fees are going................

That IS a substantial increase proposal. 

Wade, remember, the stimulous package is a Federal Govt initiative, this is a (WA) State Government Grab. '$6 million in additional revenue' - just how much of that will we see in better facilities - I won't hold my breath.Unless it's a big tinny (>5m), the charge could (remember it has to be ensorsed by cabinet and gazzetted yet) go from $63.40 to $96.40.Still, a whopping 50% increase.

This can't help boat sales and associated bausiness's. Who, generally, are suffering from diminished sales/consumer interest already.

My wife works for DPI - looking forward to to an almost 100% increase in her salary - yeah right!

Oh, BTW, hands up in here who's a 'rich' boat owner - oops! Me arms won't work. 

Colin Molloy

RECFISHWEST Member

(Colin 2 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club)

lets all stone Dreamy!!!
it's his wife's fault at DPI...also he catches too much fish..
stone him
stone him
stone him!!!

Full-time piscatorial-idiot, in The Vines. "It is always in season for old men to learn." Aeschylus (525-456 BC) Greek poet.
Supporter of Meals on Reels & The Wally Weight

Now its pay back time for us boaties having to support the libs promise of 25%of royalties from mining going to the country areas via the NCP from the last election.They cannot all find the 3% savings so its got to come from somewhere----US!!!

AND they hope we will have forgotten it before the next election

Being a pensioner we get a diccount on 1 x vehicle licence but nothing on boat rego.It is going to hurt everyone but probably the ones who can least afford it the most

Dont pay the licence fee, leave your boat in the shed, get a Yak.

Too Easy.

That is so crap. just in the process of getting my shithouse tinny registered, skippers ticket and the lot. Its gonna cost about $500 just to get it to DPI specs. Its only worth $500.
Dont think im gonna worry about it now.
Im just gonna have to get a 6hp motor and chuck it on my row boat.

I got busted by fisheries the other day for no skippers ticket and the rest, whats shit is that the dickheads werent even interested in looking in the esky!

F**k em. I hate fisheries JMO

Do the crime pay the fine, dont bitch about you were wrong

 Regards:Geoff

yeah 100% increase is a bit steep. none of that money will go back into the boating system.

But we did elect this government, so there are some consequences.(I didnt vote for them).

Luckily my registration expires in November, so i get another year before i have to pay the high registration.

so it $20/month instead of $10/month. In relative terms, its still bloody cheap.

Not good but I just payed my rego this month so I'm pretty happy with that

So many fishing spots. Not enough sickies!!!!!!!

I wouldnt say its a crime, i dont care (too much) that I got busted, its just that they should be more interested in looking at your catch to see if your over your limit.

I had a proper read of the article and its not so bad for me, under 5m.

You people all started to petition the minister ,the opposition minister and BIA I agree with you all about the way West Australians boaties are screwed in every angle possible,but ask your selves Why,If any of you care to look back  I tried to get some support for the Hillary s marina and the fact that there are 241/247 bays for boat trailers and cars yet the general public are told to park there after 1200noon,and the cars are parked FREE,we boat owners pay . A history lesson,prior too Hillary s,we in the Northern suburbs had Two Rocks or the Lee win at Freemantle,then the Government along with a private development I think Lombardos or similar,built the Hillary s and the commercial side,unfortunately,the commercial side did not take off and so the Marine Harbors took over,Im not sure about who owns the commercial side but it is planning and stuff ups that run the boating facilities,The ramps at Ocean Reef came after and are the Shire of Joondalup and I say a bloody good development for the numeres boaties in the northern areas we then got Mindarrie one that was done by the developers and I believe is Private,but a very good facility the general public is allowed to use,so the state goverment has Not realy done much for trailer type boats in the past 25 years,have a look at the southern councills Cockburn Rocking ham I have seen these marinias and they are great,and once more,done I think by the local shires and good on them,At Hillarys the commercial developments do not pay one cent to the running of the marina,but they do pay the local Shire,I think its around 12million a year in land rates,yes the hillarys is a great family attraction,and drews hundreds or thousands of people over the summer,but what does that do for the boating public? we are batteling to park a car and trailer,for which we have paid the fee,we get damage to our trailers done by who? other boaties or people in cars that accidently hit the trailer or who drive through looking at the water and boats and not for a trailer and boat being reversed,Mr Bob Slieght Of boating and Skipppers course fame has seen 3 or 4 cars damaged in 2 hours one day,how long before someone accidently hits a boat or outboard leg,all those that use this marina know that these are not exagerations,also the verbal disputes and in some extreme cases fights over launching and reteiving extetera,When Hillarys was built there were possible 60thousand boat in WA now 90,000 not all in Perth but a lot are,Why does the harbour master and the department of planning and stuff ups not only allow but encoarage cars to park in One of a very limited recreational boating marinas in the noerther suburbs and NOT PAY to do so I suggest we get together,as a collective community and tell Simple OBrien the shove his propossed fee increase up his over inflated importance,I have meet with one of his advisers,and the Harbour master,they simply do not care a toss for the trailer boating community of Perths Northern areas, are they going to encrease the size and number of ramps at Hillarys I do not think so,they may build a new marina at Oceanreef at some future time but the problem is to-day at the ramps around Perths Northern areas and,what did we,the recreational boting public get from the last time these over paid idiots put up the price of boat regos,I am sorry if I put what I think of them down in this way but they do not have the balls to meet with individuals so I am not able to tell them to there face.I dare Simple Obrien to meet me and I promise to be gental to him if he does and I would ask,and invite any of you Fishwrecked members to come along and give your views on things,if you think the parking at Hillarys is good ok great I m the only one who does not 

Part of my idea of joining a Fishing club was to pay for the privillages of the use of a club ramp, rooms, washdown, parking ,security etc.

So do the club members get a discount due to them not requiring all that is being offered by the govement.

I can recall paying $40.00 not that long ago forget this new increase add the last one and this one togeth over the years then look at the increase %.

Yer right.

Its a bit late to head home early.

Wrong government chief - its state, not federal making these changes.

Have a chat with your mate Colin Barnett.

I can recall my old man saying to be years back that it will come where people will have to pay to collect a load of firewood from the forrest. Narrr I said wont happen.

You go to get a load of wood again this winter from a public fire wood area and you will be paying again.

How long before all water uses have to pay?? Time will only tell.

Its a bit late to head home early.

A few years before the last election we[Carnarvon] were promised a new boat ramp and jetty,this was in the forward estimates that had been passed by the Government,all signed sealed,plans drawn up and not delivered by Barnett and his cronies.As for parking at the ramp here,there is only space 15 for so cars and trailers the rest have to park alongside the road or over on the nearby wharf area.At last years Carnarfin competition there were over 50 boats logged on,some faced a cross country run just to get to the one concrete lane and one sand lane ramp and a jetty thats underwater on a spring tide.
The Gov hope we will forget all the rise in charges before the next election by doing it early in their term and letting it sit for the next 3 years,I don't think so

Come on guys Rudd needs mor tipping dollars to spend at the gogo bars on his next tax funded trip to Thailand

Life is short so live it fast

Nathan

Its got nothing to do with Rudd,this is a pair of home grown money grabbers by the names of Barnett and Buswell

if carps the tv [abc mined you] star and his wanker mate fat so ?  saved some of the $billion of dollars raked in over the last 6 years instead of waisting it on who knows f*ucking what we wouldnt see any fee rise anywhere .

suppose they need to build anoher tower shaped like a dick in tribute to themselves

Life is short so live it fast

Nathan

dont forget the poly pipe was that a good one or what.  8 million on bell tower big deal .Who gave us that shit building on the edge of the river right in Perth. looks like the old Jandakot wool dumpers shed LOL