At the end of March I was down in Melbourne watching the F1. When I bought my ticket it cost me $99 for Race Sunday. When I was in Melbourne I noticed posters advertising the price for $125 where $25 was being donated to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal; like it was a good thing.
That is not a donation. That is a tax and an offensive one at that. I don’t have a problem people donating to those that lost everything and more. I went to SoundRelief in Sydney where all the money was donated to the Queensland Floods and the Victorian Bushfire Appeal. I knew this in advance, everyone paid the same and the organisers and performances donated their time and energy. Everyone donated something. The roadies gave their services for free on that day.
What I object to is the Victorian Government and the F1 looking like the good guys by getting behind a good cause when they are in fact contributing a big fat fucking zero, forcing everyone who bought tickets after the fires to donate and then on top of all that, they keep the $1 remainder, no doubt as an “administration” charge for handling your donation.
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