Labor Waste

Media Release – Greg Hunt MP The Auditor General has released a damning report into the Government’s $31.5 million dollar Carbon Tax advertising campaign finding that it breached financial management regulations and tendering processes, while failing to sell its message. These findings are extremely serious and indicate that proper processes were completely disregarded in the [...]

Media Release – Greg Hunt MP The Government’s crisis mini-budget has confirmed that Australians will be subject to another carbon tax advertising blitz. The Mid-Year Economic Fiscal Outlook outlines the multi-million dollar communications budgets for the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency.  This is on top of the $24 million already spent on advertising.  [...]

The hidden costs of the carbon tax:  A carbon price will add about $60 million to the cost of the Federal Government’s operations, and agencies are unlikely to be compensated for it. The Canberra Times analysed emissions from the bureaucracy and the military to estimate the budget hit they will face in 2012-13, when the [...]

Further revelations of Labor’s willingness to use taxpayers’ money to fund political advertising to support the Carbon Tax include: $4m was spent sending glossy brochures to every Australian household $20.1m was spent on a media advertising campaign ($16.2m on advertising buy and $3.9m on campaign development) $13m is being spent on the Government’s so called [...]

More taxpayers’ money is being wasted on selling a policy Labor promised not to introduce: A SECRET Labor spin team charged with selling the government’s carbon tax is twice the size of a similar Howard government unit set up to smooth the transition to the GST. The ten-person carbon price implementation team was quietly formed on [...]

Media Release – Senator Simon Birmingham  Millions of taxpayer dollars are going to a cheer squad of organisations supporting Julia Gillard’s carbon tax at the same time as the Government’s taxpayer funded advertising campaign has blown out to twice the announced cost, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment Simon Birmingham said today. Under questioning from [...]

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 [...]