People who pay rent are paying the landlord's rates.
How is it bludging? Oh I don't know?????? I wonder who pays for the road maintenance and the rubbish collection, and cleaning the streets, and the parking spaces, and the parks and foreshore where you might park the dinghy, and administering the city, and the stormwater system, and the sewers????? Oh its probably the same people who pay for all the items that dumbarses are always saying the Government should pay for.
And yes half the people at Uni are bludgers who would rather do a degree in flaxweaving than do something useful. And