Labor Waste

Media Release – Andrew Robb MP  The Gillard Government is pressing ahead with its plan to ramp up the Commonwealth debt limit to $250 billion while avoiding proper parliamentary scrutiny. “Today Labor arrogantly opposed an amendment I moved to give the parliament the opportunity to consider separately and vote on the proposed increase in the [...]

Media Release – Jamie Briggs MP When it comes to wasteful spending, Labor are breaking records every day.  Labor has accumulated over $150 billion worth of deficits.  They are borrowing $135 million every day and they will be spending $7.5 billion on interest repayments by 2014.  Now the Courier Mail has revealed that the total [...]

 Queenslanders want to stop the waste, why doesn’t Gillard: QUEENSLANDERS have lost faith in the ability of the state and federal governments to spend money wisely. A Galaxy Poll conducted exclusively for The Courier-Mail shows 70 per cent of Queenslanders believe governments are wasting money. The Courier-Mail’s Waste Watchers campaign will keep an eye on [...]

 Labor Ministers are getting touchy about waste: SENIOR Gillard government ministers are “sooks” waging an unsustainable and petty war against the media, experienced political strategists said. Upset with unfavourable coverage of the $308 million set-top box program, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy took the unprecedented step of undermining journalists who work at The Daily Telegraph by [...]

 While Australian families are doing it tough, the Gillard Labor Government has spent over $300,000 on new carpet for their ministerial suites:   WHEN it comes to fitting carpets, the Gillard government really are the experts in the trade. The federal Labor government has spent more than $300,000 refurbishing its ministerial offices with new carpet since it first took [...]

Media Release – The Hon Andrew Robb MP Wayne Swan has no problems with ‘rivers of gold’, the real budget problem for Labor is they are drowning in ‘rivers of waste’. “While Wayne Swan is using all types of excuses for the major structural problems he is facing with the budget, including the Queensland floods [...]

Media Release – Senator Mathias Cormann Julia Gillard is delaying the release of her carbon tax design and costings until after the Budget to avoid the scrutiny of Senate Estimates during two weeks of hearings scheduled for late May 2011. “These will be the last Senate Estimates hearings before the government takes control of the [...]