Ballarat rates go up $41

The average Moorabool Shire Council ratepayer will pay an extra $26 a year or 50 cents per week, with rates increasing six per cent from $1044 to $1070.
The shire has proposed a 7.69 per cent increase, which will take the current annual rates from $1087 to $1150 in 2009/2010 for the average ratepayer. Pyrenees Shire [...]