Labor Waste

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 [...]

With the majority of Australians opposing the Labor-Green Carbon Tax, Labor has established a multi-million dollar ‘spin unit’ to help them ‘sell’ the tax to the Australian public. Despite promising that “there will be no carbon tax under the government I lead”, Julia Gillard and Labor have secretly set this new ‘spin unit’ up to [...]

Media Release – Greg Hunt MP The Government’s pink batts fiasco is costing Australian taxpayers even more money with a multi-billion dollar blow-out in the cost of fixing the mess. A document released on the Government’s website for tenders reveals the original contract for work has increased from $26 million to $124 million. This is [...]

Media Release – Senator Simon Birmingham Labor’s home insulation scheme leaves a sorry tale of destruction and a million homeowners still in the dark.  Four installers working on the program died, around 200 house fires are known to have occurred, many businesses have been destroyed, significant numbers of jobs lost and approaching $1.7 billion in [...]

The clean-up from Labor’s disastrous Home Insulation program continues: TRADIES will inspect potentially dangerous roofs under the clean-up of the $2.4 billion insulation fiasco. The Federal Government has hired the tradies, many who have received just five days training in a classroom that does not involve stepping into the roof of a house before they [...]

TAXPAYERS are subsidising the electricity bills of Cate Blanchett’s Sydney Theatre Company. Designed to demonstrate solar power and save water, the Gillard Government has spent $15 million on the Green Precinct program at just a dozen “high profile” demonstration projects. They include a grant of $1.2 million towards the Sydney Theatre Company’s Greening The Wharf [...]

More reports of dodgy installations under Labor’s bungled home insulation program have been revealed today, this time in South Australia.  MORE than 12,000 SA homes are at risk of fire and electrical damage because of bad insulation. Material was installed by unlicensed workers in nearly a third of the 38,000 SA homes signed up for the Federal [...]