Labor Waste

 $1 billion price tag for Labor’s failed border protection policies:  THE federal government has been handed a $1 billion bill for running detention centres. Foreign-owned global security company Serco secretly renegotiated its contract with the Department of Immigration just before Christmas. A new four-year contract to outsource management of the country’s immigration detention centres – including [...]

Another cost to taxpayers from Labor’s  failed border protection policies: BUYING cigarettes and tobacco for immigration detainees is costing taxpayers more than $1.4 million a year. While the federal government spends millions on anti-smoking campaigns, the cost of keeping up detainees’ habits costs about $4000 a day. The Opposition accused the government of providing its [...]

Media Release – Jamie Briggs Taxpayers are again being asked to cover the costs of Labor’s failed border protection policies.  After being hit with a $3 billion blow out in Australia’s detention centre network because of changes to our border protection laws, taxpayers will now pick up a $283,000 bill sent by NSW Fire and [...]

  Julia Gillard’s ‘Malaysian Solution’ is likely to place a further burden on taxpayers: Taxpayers will fork out more than $50,000 for every refugee the Federal Government plans to bring to Australia from Malaysia under its new plan to stop illegal boat arrivals. But they will have to pay more than $90,000 for every asylum [...]

Joint Media Release – Scott Morrison MP and Michael Keenan MP The arrival of another boat carrying more than sixty people will put even more pressure on the Government’s asylum seeker budget that has already blown out by than $1.4 billion, Shadow Minister for Productivity and Population & Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Scott [...]

Media Release – Scott Morrison Immigration Minister Chris Bowen has been caught up in Labor’s growing pattern of deceit after the Coalition revealed the new Darwin Detention Centre at Wickham Point will cost eight times more than was announced, Shadow Minister for Productivity and Population & Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Scott Morrison said [...]

Media Release – Scott Morrison Skyrocketing costs and reports of further ‘disturbances’ involving detainees in Darwin reveal a detention network in crisis, Shadow Minister for Productivity and Population & Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Scott Morrison said today.  “It has been reported this morning that eleven detainees have been taken to the Darwin watchhouse [...]