Labor Waste

An outback school west of Longreach in Queensland has been granted $250,000 to build a Library, even though it has just one student! Acting school principal Rosemary Winterbotham has confirmed the school didn’t even apply for the funds under the governments $16.2 billion Building the Education Revolution program. The Acting principal said it would be [...]

Three schools on Kangaroo Island have been charged more than $100,000 in ‘site inspection fees’ for new assembly halls being funded under the Federal Government’s financial stimulus plan. The three campuses of Kangaroo Island Community Education have been required to forfeit $112,000 out of $3.7 million allocated under the Government’s $16.2 billion Building the Education [...]

The Australian Senate will hold an inquiry into the schools stimulus spending debacle after the primary schools building program blew out by $1.7 billion amid growing examples of waste and mismangement. Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull said “You could not ask for a more illuminating demonstration of how Labor pays scant regard to the management of [...]

The Rudd Labor Government will insulate 700,000 fewer homes and build 800 fewer public housing units to cover a $1.5 billion spending blowout in education building. Prime Minister Rudd and Education Minister Gillard scrambled for cover at the news, sending junior minister Mark Arbib to the front line to announce that the Government would now [...]

Australian taxpayers are forking out more than $7 million to spread the Government’s promotional efforts in primary schools. $3.8 million for mandatory signs at the front of schools and $3.5 million to erect plaques to commemorate the Hon Julia Gillard, Federal Minister for Education. “This is all shocking waste and mismanagement”, said Coalition Scrutiny of [...]

School Principals’ outrage at the waste and mismanagement in the Government’s school halls debacle has been revealed today in emails leaked to media outlets, according to Shadow Education Minister Christopher Pyne. ”These Principals have seen the waste and mismanagement in this program first hand, and are furious. The BER delivers no value for money to [...]