Originally Posted by
Glevum
A friend of mine had the same problem in the UK.
He was told by a mate who worked for the power company to tell them the wayleave for the power cables crossing his property had expired and could they kindly remove them.
The cables were buried for free pretty promptly.
I don't know if you have the same system of wayleaves in Oz, but it might be worth trying.
It’s surprising what you can get done with a little leverage, the real cost of putting cable U/G in open ground even HV is quite low, but they charge what they can get and make a nice profit along the way