Archive for 'Failed Government Programs'

Housing Program Wastes $45 million and Not One House!

Posted 08 September 2009 | By | Categories: Failed Government Programs | Comments Off

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 [...]

Insulation Stimulus Dollars Benefit Overseas Suppliers

Posted 26 August 2009 | By | Categories: Accountability, Environment, Failed Government Programs | Comments Off

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 [...]

GROCERYchoice Debacle to front Senate Inquiry

Posted 24 August 2009 | By | Categories: Accountability, Failed Government Programs | Comments Off

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 [...]

Senate Inquiry into GROCERYchoice waste

Posted 13 August 2009 | By | Categories: Committee News, Failed Government Programs | Comments Off

GROCERYchoice Canned Wasting Millions

Posted 15 July 2009 | By | Categories: Failed Government Programs | Comments Off

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 [...]

Exactly how much wasted on GROCERYchoice?

Posted 29 June 2009 | By | Categories: Accountability, Failed Government Programs | Comments Off

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, [...]