Labor Waste

Federal Labor has confirmed that $45 million was spent on a housing program without a single house being built. The $672 million Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program (SIHIP) is designed to deliver 750 new houses by 2013 under the stewardship of the Northern Territory. But it has now been confirmed the program is so [...]

Millions of stimulus dollars designed to protect Australian workers and industry from the global recession are being spent on overseas supplied home insulation batts. Despite ramping up their production plants to 24/7 operations, Australia’s biggest manufacturers of insulation batts are still having to go offshore to meet up to 30% of their total orders. The [...]

Before the last election Kevin Rudd promised to lower grocery prices. After wasting at least $6.6 million of taxpayer’s money on the GROCERYchoice website and delivering nothing useful to Australian consumers, the Rudd Labor Government will be called to account in a Senate inquiry over their wasteful and reckless spending. The inquiry follows a successful [...]

The Rudd government has been forced to scrap the GROCERYchoice website less than a week before it was scheduled to go live after conceding it was never going to work – but not before wasting at least $7 million of taxpayer’s money on what turned out to be a complete white elephant. The GROCERYchoice dumping [...]

The Labor Government must confirm exactly how much taxpayer’s money has been wasted on the GROCERYchoice website and advise its response to possible legal action by CHOICE Australia, according to Coalition Scrutiny of Government spokesperson, Senator Guy Barnett. ‘We know the Government spent an estimated $7 million by early June (see Senate Estimates committee hansard, [...]