Labor Waste

Paul Fletcher MP Labor has wasted billions on its bloated and rorted school halls and pink batts programs – but there is even greater waste and extravagance in the more than $50 billion being poured into the National Broadband Network (NBN). Let me highlight just three of the many instances of waste and mismanagement in [...]

 An overly expensive network run by fat cats: THE cost of salaries for employees of the controversial National Broadband Network has hit $132 million a year, despite the fledgling company servicing just 561 customers. NBN Co executives are on massive packages with 34 senior staff taking home between $300,000 and $400,000 a year – putting [...]

 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 [...]

 More proof why Labor should have conducted a cost-benefit analysis on the NBN:   THE government company rolling out the National Broadband Network has more staff than it does customers. NBN Co, which has 784 staff, has at most 607 customers after Julia Gillard and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy launched the first NBN site on the mainland in Armidale [...]

Media Release – Malcolm Turnbull Corporate advisor Greenhill Caliburn has admitted “mobile centric” broadband networks such as next-generation wireless could seriously undermine the economic viability of the Gillard Government’s $50 billion National Broadband Network. While the Greenhill Caliburn report provides grudging support for the assumptions underlying the NBN Co business plan, the Government’s advisor concedes [...]

Gillard’s history of back-flips and economic waste highlights the Government’s mismanagement. As a Rudd government minister, Gillard wound back market-based industrial relations reforms — not just Work Choices but reforms from the Coalition’s 1997 IR package negotiated with the Democrats, as well as IR reforms from Keating’s time as prime minister. I am not even [...]

John Howard has has damned the NBN as a waste of money which demonstrates the Gillard-Labor Government’s incompetence. In an exclusive live blog for the Australian Online, the former prime minister also said Tony Abbott should lead the Coalition to the next election, that it’s too early to judge Julia Gillard’s performance as prime minister [...]