Labor Waste

The Government is facing another inquiry into alleged “rorting and waste” of its home insulation program. In a letter to the Auditor General Coalition Environment Spokesman Greg Hunt says MP’s offices and media outlets around the country are receiving a stream of complaints about the program. Examples include insulation installers almost always quoting just under [...]

The Rudd Government spent more than $49 million of taxpayer money on 418 media advisers, media monitoring and PR spin last year, despite Kevin Rudd’s pre-election promise to cut ministerial staff by 30 percent to bring levels in line with those of 1996. The Defence Department alone employed 103 more media advisors than any other [...]

Three schools on Kangaroo Island have been charged more than $100,000 in ‘site inspection fees’ for new assembly halls being funded under the Federal Government’s financial stimulus plan. The three campuses of Kangaroo Island Community Education have been required to forfeit $112,000 out of $3.7 million allocated under the Government’s $16.2 billion Building the Education [...]

The Rudd Labor Government will insulate 700,000 fewer homes and build 800 fewer public housing units to cover a $1.5 billion spending blowout in education building. Prime Minister Rudd and Education Minister Gillard scrambled for cover at the news, sending junior minister Mark Arbib to the front line to announce that the Government would now [...]

Australian taxpayers are forking out more than $7 million to spread the Government’s promotional efforts in primary schools. $3.8 million for mandatory signs at the front of schools and $3.5 million to erect plaques to commemorate the Hon Julia Gillard, Federal Minister for Education. “This is all shocking waste and mismanagement”, said Coalition Scrutiny of [...]

The Government will not say just how much of its latest cash splash has gone offshore. To receive the cash bonus you must have filed a 2007/08 tax return. Accordingly, criminals in jail, Australians living overseas and even cats and dogs through bequests of Australians who have died are also receiving benefits under the Rudd [...]

A string of budget deficits triggered by massive government spending could cost Australia it’s coveted triple A credit rating. The loss of our triple A credit rating would increase the interest payments on Australia’s debt making the individual debt on each Australian even more onerous than it already is. Standard & Poor’s have said if [...]