18/04/2026
🚨 BUDGET BOMBSHELL: KNOX TARGETS PENSIONERS TO BALANCE THE BOOKS 🚨
While households are being smashed by the cost-of-living crisis, Knox City Council appears to be quietly preparing to cut pensioner rate discounts by 25% - slashing them from $100 down to just $75.
Let’s call this what it is: a direct hit on the most vulnerable residents.
Here’s the sting - Councillors didn’t stop staff from doing it!
This isn’t some rounding error. This cut is expected to save Council around $250,000 a year.
In a budget getting closer to $200 million a year - they target pensioner rates discounts 🤬
Not bloated projects.
Not consultants.
Not executive costs.
Pensioners.
Even worse, this hasn’t been front and centre in a transparent, honest way. Instead, it appears buried within budget detail and this has been done intentionally to avoid community backlash until it’s too late.
And here’s where it gets ugly.
Several councillors ran for election on promises to protect or maintain the $100 pensioner discount.
Now, behind closed doors, those same commitments are being tested. Were those promises genuine - or just campaign fluff?
Because make no mistake:
Every councillor who supports sending this budget out with this cut owns it.
This is the moment of truth.
Knox residents - particularly pensioners - should be asking:
* Why are we being targeted?
* Where else could $250,000 have been saved?
* Who is making this decision - and why wasn’t it clearly disclosed?
Budgets are about priorities. And right now, Knox Council’s priorities look badly skewed.
If this goes through, it won’t just be a budget decision - it will be a statement.
A statement that when times get tough…
Knox goes after pensioners first.
What’s next?
Remember this is the same bureaucratic staff group that tried to axe Christ and Christmas Carols.
When their secrets are exposed - they panic. 🙀
Yet they don’t learn 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♀️
