{"id":263209,"date":"2025-08-07T14:27:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T04:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=263209"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:11:10","slug":"machete-amnesty-bins-recently-installed-cost-victorians-13m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=263209","title":{"rendered":"Machete Amnesty bins recently installed cost Victorians $13M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can hand in a machete without penalty during this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, how in the hell could a 1 metre high steel metal bin to receive the knives cost $325,000?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That equates to $325,000 for each Machete Amnesty Bin or $13 million for all 40 bins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And they are only going to use them for 3 months as this is as long as the amnesty is planned to run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Victoria, they don\u2019t have a government – they have criminal money laundering syndicate running the state. – Craig Kelly <\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We probably need to have a review into this contract awarding and ask an independent team to investigate this is taxpayer money after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And you wonder why Victoria is broken and hopelessly in debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":263210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[993,8],"class_list":["post-263209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265634,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263209\/revisions\/265634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/263210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}