A Machete Amnesty will run from 1 September to 30 November 2025 to support the safe disposal of machetes. Safe disposal bins will be installed at select police stations across metropolitan and regional Victoria.
You can hand in a machete without penalty during this time.
However, how in the hell could a 1 metre high steel metal bin to receive the knives cost $325,000?
That equates to $325,000 for each Machete Amnesty Bin or $13 million for all 40 bins.
And they are only going to use them for 3 months as this is as long as the amnesty is planned to run.
And you wonder why Victoria is broken and hopelessly in debt it is inconceivable this amount could ever be charged for such a poorly constructed BIN!
In Victoria, they don’t have a government – they have criminal money laundering syndicate running the state. – Craig Kelly
A steel fabricator, could have manufactured all 40 of these bins for $325,000. A total cost of $13 million makes no sense whatsoever. I tried to find out to whom the contract was award, but of course no luck. The money went somewhere, but where?
We probably need to have a review into this contract awarding and ask an independent team to investigate this is taxpayer money after all.
If what I’m hearing is true (I have a family member in a remand center) they are getting prisoners to build these. And they don’t get paid that much: we’re talking under $50 a week… Me thinks someone’s pockets are being lined… very well lined.
That wouldn’t surprise me. We needs a royal commission the cost of these machete bins just don’t add up someone is lining their pockets and laughing all the way to the bank. How stupid do government think we are
There has to be a kickback somewhere a cheque size of 13m would mean a tender ?
How did they think this was good value for money ?
Needs to be an FOI covering this this process
Surely they wouldn’t be relying on the steel fabrication and welding skills of unqualified prisoners, right?
I doubt many people will even dispose of their machetes anyway, maybe a few serious camping/hiking people, but definitely not criminals. It was a terrible idea from the start and an even worse idea to pay an insane $325k per bin.
At least NSW came to their senses when the saw the $25mil price tag for the installation of one additional flag pole on the harbour Bridge.
What an absolute waste.
A daily tally of machetes disposed of is the least the Government could do to show the Vic tax payer the return on their investment. I’m not talking about fudged daily numbers like dumb Dan and his labour team did during Covid, but actual numbers that are not fictitious.
I would like to see a daily tally of those machetes surrendered.
They should have just offered $100k rewards for information leading direct to persons in possessions of machetes 🙄
I wonder if this went to tender or was it a nice kick back from the absolute rip of price the government paid ,What a fking joke
This is what boils my blood! I pay a huge chunk of my wage for the simpletons to waste it on shite like this, it is a obvious over spend on such a simple bin!(Wish I got the contract to build them)
It’s not an isolated spend or over spend of tax dollars and usually not even hidden, it obviously corruption and or feeding friends of friends businesses.
The Guy That Won This Contract Has Retired .Still Laughing on This Windfall 🤣 😂 😆 😄
I’m interested in the price breakdown. Yeah, $13 million is a lot, but is that just for the bin or does it include advertising and the laws around using the bin? ’Cause if that’s the case, I can see how it’d cost a couple of million with ads and maybe some legal changes, but not $13 million.
We’re talking maybe a couple of mil on ads, and who knows how much it costs to draft and pass new laws. Even if each bin costs $50,000, which is on the high side, including ripping up footpaths and installing them, that’s still only $2 million out of the $13 million. Add another $2 to $3 million on ads, that’s $5 million total.
So where’s the other $7 million going? To writing laws? That doesn’t add up.
I could maybe see $6 to $7 million tops for this whole project, which is still ridiculous when you could just set up a no questions asked knife drop-off point at police stations across the state. That might only cost a bit of overtime, since police would just have some extra paperwork. Or better yet, have the desk clerk handle it and the officers file the knives as evidence.
But if it really costs $11 million just for ads and new laws, would we even be saving money in the long run? The government needs to break it down properly, otherwise it just looks stupid.
Fake news! Where is this number from?
What makes you say it is fake news?
Confirmation the bins were not made in any Victorian Prison but rumour is the bins could have been manufactured in South Australia at a prison in Mount Gambier.