Labor Waste

When it comes to Labor’s economic management not much has really changed. Despite inheriting a $20 billion surplus and zero net debt, Labor is delivering: $82.4 billion of net debt in 2010-11 – $3,600 per person $4.6 billion of interest paid on net debt in 2010-11 – that’s $12.6 million a day or $203 for every [...]

Media Release – Jamie Briggs Australian taxpayers faced a multi-million dollar bill following the knifing of Kevin Rudd in June this year for the cost of payouts to ministerial staff alone. According to a response I received yesterday to a Question on Notice, the Australian taxpayer paid $1.3 million in payments to terminated staff immediately [...]

STAFF numbers in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet have swelled more than 40 per cent under Labor. This has come as prime ministerial control over key policy areas has increased. The total number of people employed by the department jumped from 464 in 2007-08 to 657 in 2009-10. This continues a steady rise [...]

As part of its response to the reckless and wasteful spending of the Rudd-Gillard Labor Government, the Coalition has introduced legislation to establish a Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) to ensure transparency and accountability in Government spending and better value for money. Liberal Senator Guy Barnett, who introduced the bill and a related bill on value [...]

Julia Gillard stood right behind Kevin Rudd on every one of Labor’s reckless and wasteful spending decisions over the past 3 years, like GROCERYchoice, FUELwatch, the 2020 Summit, stimulus advertising and tax bonus payments – to name just a few. Julia Gillard is just as responsible for Labor’s billions of dollars in waste as the [...]

With the May budget fast approaching, all eyes are on Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan as taxpayers anxiously wait to discover how their money will be spent by a government that has already wasted over $4 billion in just two and a half years. Labor continues to waste money and rack up the bungles across [...]

Tens of thousands of taxpayers have been left out of pocket after tax assessment letters went out without cheques attached! 140,000 letters will need to be resent while the ATO continues to pay interest on overdue refunds. After pressure from the Coalition, Assistant Treasurer Senator Nick Sherry was forced to belatedly announce an inquiry, but [...]