Labor Waste

Media Release – Christopher Pyne The New South Wales Government needs to hold a judicial inquiry into the school hall programme after weekend reports that only 64 per cent of funding allocated to government schools was spent on building costs with the rest absorbed by management fees and other costs. “Why did government schools in [...]

Christopher Pyne: The Orgill Taskforce Report today is a disastrous report for the Government.  It’s a damming report.  They investigated only complaints that they had received; formal complaints, but those complaints show that public schools in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland were ripped off blind by hopeless administration of a $16 billion program.  Julia [...]

MORE than $1.5 billion has been wasted in the eastern states under the federal Government’s Building the Education Revolution schools stimulus program, with the nation’s two biggest states failing to provide value for money under the program. The third and final report into the BER, conducted by former investment banker Brad Orgill, has found Victorian [...]

Media Release – Senator Brett Mason Thousands of Building the Education Revolution projects still remain to be completed, months after the original deadlines have passed and more than three years after the Global Financial Crisis, according to Senator Brett Mason, Shadow Minister for Universities and Research. “Of 10,697 projects under the BER’s Primary Schools for [...]

Media Release – Christopher Pyne A damning Senate report into the School Hall program was released by the Gillard Government close to midnight last night to avoid scrutiny, Christopher Pyne, Shadow Minister for Education said today. “The report finds that the Government’s taskforce investigating waste in the BER has misinterpreted the data, presenting the BER [...]

Media Release – Senator Brett Mason Over 90 per cent of projects under the Science and Languages Centres for the 21st Century, and over 37 per cent of the 10,697 “school halls” projects have been granted variations by the government, most of them extensions of time to achieve completion, according to Senator Brett Mason, Shadow [...]

Media Release – Christopher Pyne Having promised to build a trades training centre in all 2650 Australian high schools in 2007, the Rudd/Gillard Government has only built 48 in three years, Christopher Pyne, Shadow Minister for Education said today.  A new report by the auditor-general has revealed enormous delays in the programme that the Prime [...]