Legal fees higher than first thought
Thursday, 21 January, 2010
Record spending on legal fees by the Rudd Labor Government may be worse than first thought, according to a new report. Spending on lawyers in 2007/08 rose $100 million to $510m and again to $555m in 2008/09, despite Kevin Rudd’s preelection promises to cut spending by $15 million per year after the first budget.
As Shadow Attorney General Senator George Brandis points out: “Not only will the Rudd Government break it’s election promise, but it’s own review has found the election promise was not a sensible commitment in the fi rst place.” (AFR, 12/1/10)
Labor’s spending on legal fees is just another broken election promise.
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