NSW Nat Parks - fee Increase

Have just stayed at a NSW NP, and the cost was $27 per night.
($10 pp camping + $7 vehicle entry per day).
A Contractor collects the fees, and is VERY efficient (called within 5 minutes of our arrival, and visited the park several times a day, every day, during our our 4 day stay).
Reason for fee increase - "the need to comply with competitive neutrality principles with respect to ...private operators".
(eg same price as the caravan parks).

So - I asked him - OK - if you must be "competitively neutral" , where are the hot showers, the water on tap, the powered site, the laundry....
(don't get me wrong, I DO NOT WANT them, but if they are going to charge..)
His reply - don't shoot the messenger, I am just the collector.
He said that the Govt not only doesn't fund the NP, they take 50% of the fees collected. So - rather than National Parks being a cost to Govt, they are being used to raise revenue.

And to put icing on the cake, the brochure notifying the fee increase says " for further information, call the (local) NPWS". The Govt bring in the law, but pass the buck onto the local rangers. Nice touch NSW Pollies.

Ok - I will take some blood pressure pills and get off the soap box....Keith