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刚看到一个很有趣的新闻：
A FIGHT between some of Sydney's wealthiest apartment dwellers and the city council over whom they pay to take away their rubbish has drawn in the owners of the exclusive Finger Wharf apartments at Woolloomooloo, who include the actor Russell Crowe and retired broadcaster John Laws.
The Herald revealed last week that residents of one of Sydney's most exclusive apartment blocks, The Tower on Market Street, were locked in a dispute with the City of Sydney over an annual waste levy of $201 per person for a rubbish removal service the council does not carry out.
Since they were built in 1999, the hotel below the apartments, the Swissotel, has taken care of rubbish removal. Despite this, the council continues to charge residents the waste levy on their rates notices, arguing that there is insufficient access for council garbage trucks and that, under the Local Government Act, it is obliged to charge residents a levy despite not providing the service.
Now the The Tower's residents, who include the former Macquarie Bank boss Bill Moss and racing identity Frank Tagg, have been joined by owners at Finger Wharf, who say they will consider backing any legal action taken against the council.
The chairwoman of the building services committee at Finger Wharf, Suzanne Grund, said its residents had been fighting the council over the rubbish charge for several years.
''It's $200 per person and you have over 300 apartments, so it's not a drop in the bucket,'' Ms Grund said of the waste levy. ''But that's not the point. The point is that they are charging for something and it's not being delivered. It's ludicrous.''
The Tower has sent a legal letter to the council requesting a meeting to resolve the issue. CMs Grund said she planned to contact the chairwoman of the executive committee of the apartment owners' corporation at The Tower, Cherry Shaw, to offer her support. ''I'd be more than happy to put it to our committee to join their action,'' she said.
A council spokesman said it did not pick up Finger Wharf's rubbish because ''they opted to utilise a private waste collection service upon occupation. Unlike The Tower apartments, there are no access issues with the Finger Wharf and the City's domestic waste and recycling collection service is available should they opt to use it.'' |
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