Labor Waste

Labor Waste and Mismanagement ‘The Writing is on the Wall – even for the Cookie Monster’ The 2011-2012 Additional estimates hearings were held on Monday, 13 February and Tuesday, 14 February (Group A) and Wednesday, 15 February and Thursday, 16 February (Group B) with Cross-portfolio Indigenous matters on Friday, 17 February 2012.  (See Senate Estimates Transcripts [...]

Speech from Jamie Briggs to Parliament -  I rise to speak about an issue that is concerning my constituents enormously, and that is the waste and mismanagement that is leading to the spiralling national debt we see whenever new budget figures are released. This week, with Senate estimates, we have seen further examples of Labor’s [...]

Media Release – Senator Mitch Fifield The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs will spend up to $55,000 over the next six months on a workshop run by consultants for its staff entitled “writing to and for the minister.”  A Senate Estimates hearing was told today that the workshop is designed to [...]

The continued delays in Fair Work Australia’s investigation of serious allegations against Craig Thomspon has now cost taxpayers $1 million: IT’S the expensive farce over a Labor MP, union credit cards and hookers that makes some of history’s most complex events seem simple. Fair Work Australia’s investigation of Dobell MP Craig Thomson over the past three years [...]

Labor’s wasteful spending continues unabated, this time in the form of overpriced Set Top Boxes: EVERY set-top box delivered under Labor’s digital TV rollout could be costing the taxpayer an average of $698 — almost double the government’s original estimate, more than 30 times the cost of a box bought at a department store and [...]

Media Release – Senator Simon Birmingham More than $1 million of taxpayers’ money has been wasted on providing the Gillard Government with public feedback about its unpopular carbon tax, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. Climate Change departmental officials revealed, in a Senate Estimates hearing today, that $1.03 million has so [...]

Media Release – the Hon John Cobb MP Senate estimates this morning revealed the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) has splurged $77,627 on consultants to inform the Department on how to remove the agricultural sectors aspirations and needs from the Department’s mission statement, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Food Security, John Cobb said.  [...]