Labor Waste

Labor’s wasteful spending continues unabated, this time in the form of overpriced Set Top Boxes: EVERY set-top box delivered under Labor’s digital TV rollout could be costing the taxpayer an average of $698 — almost double the government’s original estimate, more than 30 times the cost of a box bought at a department store and [...]

Media Release – Senator Simon Birmingham Taxpayers are still owed millions of dollars from Labor’s disastrous $2.5 billion Home Insulation Program, linked to at least four deaths and more than 200 house fires. The mounting losses have been revealed by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE) today in response to questioning from [...]

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 – 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 [...]

Another billion dollar Labor program that has failed to deliver: A KEY $2.1 billion federal government skills program designed to provide 711,000 training places over five years was so badly administered that evaluators couldn’t tell who it had trained, according to a report obtained under Freedom of Information. A mid-term review of the Productivity Places [...]

Just when you thought it could’t get any worse, Labor finds a new way to waste taxpayers’ money:  ALMOST a quarter of the $308 million allocated to put set-top boxes in pensioners’ homes will go to administration and two government departments. Answers given to a senate committee reveal $24.5 million was for the Department of Broadband, [...]

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 [...]