House Standing Committee on Industry, Innovation and Science - Melbourne, VIC (part 2 of 2)
1 May 2026
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House Standing Committee on Industry, Innovation and Science Australian Parliament
00:00 - 00:08
Speaker 7
Primary driver of our issues now. We've done a lot of interventions over the last three years, so we definitely think it's more commercial illegal dumping. Do
00:09 - 00:27
Speaker 16
you find some of that... Or do think a percentage of that is coming from other areas? So I think an example like Mitchell, you know, would find most of the ties being dumped there have come from, you know, probably over the West somewhere, and they've dragged them in.
00:28 - 00:59
Speaker 7
We think it was... There's a commercial imperative, to take rubbish, and people may believe they're disposing of it legally Yep. For a very cheap rate, and it's being used in our land as Mitchell is finding and as Whittlesea is finding. Mhmm. Our land is being used, as tips, for people to presumably profit, in a illegal way around that.
So we think it's coming from outside. We certainly don't think it's it's certainly not residents. We don't think it's residents driving this problem. Yep.
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