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Labor Waste Annual Report 2009/10
Friday, 6 August, 2010
Labor are borrowing more than $100 million a day, every day.
The Coalition will end Labor’s waste, stop new taxes and pay back the debt.
We will do the right thing....
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Tony Abbott Action Contract to Cut Waste
Wednesday, 7 July, 2010
The Coalition is determined to stop government waste and pay back Labor’s debt...
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Parliamentary Budget Office
Wednesday, 7 July, 2010
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...
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$55,000 Per Month for PNG Adviser
Wednesday, 7 July, 2010
Even the Government concedes money is being wasted...
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$300 Million Wasted on Green Loans Debacle
Wednesday, 7 July, 2010
What we got was a dysfunctional program that has caused us loss of income and untold stress...
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Gillard up to Her Neck in Waste
Wednesday, 7 July, 2010
Julia Gillard stood right behind Kevin Rudd on every one of Labor’s reckless and wasteful spending decisions over the past 3 years...
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$38 Million Wasted on Mining Tax Ads
Friday, 7 May, 2010
The Rudd Government will spend $38 million advertising its great big new mining tax in yet another blatantly political waste of taxpayers money after exempting the ads from the normal approval process...
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BER Biggest Waste Ever
Friday, 7 May, 2010
Dozens of examples of waste and mismanagement are now emerging...
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Immigration Budget Blow-Out
Friday, 7 May, 2010
Labor has lost control of our borders and lost control of spending...
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Pink Batts Waste - Buck Stops with PM
Friday, 7 May, 2010
Kevin Rudd says ‘The buck stops with me’ – so why isn’t he brave enough to meet with those directly affected...
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Broken Promises, Blow-Outs, Waste & Mismanagement
Friday, 7 May, 2010
Building the Education Revolution, Home Insulation Program, Laptops in Schools, Stimulus Advertising......
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Rudd Piling on the Waste
Thursday, 22 April, 2010
Rudd government has already wasted over $4 billion in just two and a half years...
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Gillard Caves in to Inquiry Over BER Bungle
Thursday, 22 April, 2010
The Rudd Labor Government has finally admitted bungling its $16.2 billion Building the Education Revolution (BER)...
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Green Scheme has Labor Seeing Red
Thursday, 22 April, 2010
The Rudd Labor Government’s collapsed $175 million Green Loans program has blown-out costs by up to $48 million - all because of missing paperwork...
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Labor Inefficiency Reaches Boiling Point
Thursday, 22 April, 2010
They just didn’t do any research about where it was going. It is taxpayers that pay for it...
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Tax Office Bungle Leads to Another Review
Thursday, 22 April, 2010
140,000 letters will need to be resent while the ATO continues to pay interest on overdue refunds...
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Pink Batts Debacle Keeps Getting Worse
Thursday, 11 March, 2010
240,000 dodgy installations, up to 1,000 electrifi ed roofs, 93 housefi res, 4 deaths...
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150 Staff but no ETS!
Thursday, 11 March, 2010
At a cost of $81.9 million...
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$850 Million Solar Blow-Out
Thursday, 11 March, 2010
The program has now been axed, but taxpayers are left to pick up the tab....
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Green Loans - $175 Million Fiasco
Thursday, 11 March, 2010
Now the loans have been cancelled and the auditors are left to investigate how much was rorted and wasted in the process...
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$10 Million Spent Defending Terrorists
Sunday, 28 February, 2010
Over $10 million has been spent on legal fees defending the rights of 9 Sydney terrorists who were found guilty of terrorism offences - more than $1 million for each terrorist....
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Labor Spends $2 Million to Cut Travel Costs
Sunday, 28 February, 2010
Two separate consultants were hired - one for $1.4 million and the other for almost half a million dollars to do scoping studies on how to meet Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner’s goal of saving $26 million on travel....
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Million Dollar Rent to Impress High Flyers
Sunday, 28 February, 2010
The Federal Government has been caught out spending $950,000 a year of taxpayers money for office space in Sydney’s CBD just so it can impress potential investors....
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$1.3 million to Stop Accidents that Never Happened
Sunday, 28 February, 2010
$1.3 million has been spent re-aligning roads around Parliament House in Canberra to prevent accidents that never happened, while at the same time security staff were being laid off to cut costs...
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Copenhagen costs taxpayers $1.5 million
Monday, 25 January, 2010
The Rudd Labor government has spent an estimated $1.5 million on travel and accomodation to send a massive delegation to the failed Copenhagen Climate Change conference, according to Nine News (8 Jan 2010)...
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Whale of a time could cost $1 million
Monday, 25 January, 2010
The Rudd Labor Government has spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayers dollars on a special envoy to help stop whaling - but has nothing to show for it...
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Labor hit $1 billion jackpot on consultants
Thursday, 21 January, 2010
The Rudd Labor Government have hit the jackpot, awarding $1 billion in consultancy contracts since coming to power in November 2007...
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Legal fees higher than first thought
Thursday, 21 January, 2010
Spending on lawyers in 2007/08 rose $100 million to $510m and again to $555m in 2008/09...
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Labor Waste in the Billions
Sunday, 29 November, 2009
$130 for every Australian - on waste and mismanagement since being elected just 2 years ago...
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$940m+ on consultants!!!
Sunday, 29 November, 2009
The Rudd Labor Government has awarded over $940 million worth of consultancy contracts since coming to power just 2 years ago....
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Billions wasted on schools
Sunday, 29 November, 2009
The Rudd Government failed to undertake any cost-benefit analysis before spending more than $18 billion on BER....
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$200 million wasted on pink batts
Sunday, 29 November, 2009
The Federal Government has wasted $200 million of taxpayers money on its poorly implemented ‘pink batts cash splash’ offering a rebate to suppliers hundreds of dollars higher than the cost of insulation...
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Same old Labor: Spending, waste and mismanagement
Thursday, 15 October, 2009
The Labor Waste Annual Report 2008/09 highlights examples of waste, inefficiency and mismanagement that have occurred under the Rudd Labor Government in the 12 months to 30 September 2009....
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Labor Wastes 900 Pages a month on Reports
Friday, 9 October, 2009
The Rudd government is pumping out Reports at the rate of more than one a week or 900 pages a month and in the last 2 years in office has produced more than 140 reports spanning nearly 20,000 pages....
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Inquiry Call on Insulation Waste
Friday, 9 October, 2009
The Government is facing another inquiry into alleged “rorting and waste” of its home insulation program.
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Rudd Throws $50 Million at PR Spin
Friday, 9 October, 2009
The Rudd Government spent more than $49 million of taxpayer money on 418 media advisers, media monitoring and PR spin last year, despite Kevin Rudd’s pre-election promise to cut ministerial staff by 30 percent to bring levels in line with those of 1996....
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Education Stimulus Aimed at Votes Not Value
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Labor marginal seats receive on average nearly $1 million more than Coalition seats....
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More than $10 million cost for GROCERYchoice website
Friday, 18 September, 2009
The Rudd Government will incur costs of over $10 million on it's now defunct GROCERYchoice website, despite the project being cancelled less than one year after it commenced...
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$2.5 Million to Knock Down and Rebuild
Tuesday, 15 September, 2009
The Rudd Labor Government has already wasted $85,000 on consultants and plans as part of a $2.5 million plan to knock down and rebuild four classrooms at Abbotsford Public School in Sydney....
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One Student School gets $250,000 Library!
Tuesday, 15 September, 2009
The school didn’t even apply for the funds under the governments $16.2 billion Building the Education Revolution program....
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Six Figure Inspection Fees Wasting Stimulus
Tuesday, 15 September, 2009
Three schools on Kangaroo Island have been charged more than $100,000 in ‘site inspection fees’ for new assembly halls being funded under the Federal Government’s financial stimulus plan....
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Senate to Hold Inquiry into Schools Stimulus Waste
Tuesday, 15 September, 2009
You could not ask for a more illuminating demonstration of how Labor pays scant regard to the management of taxpayers’ money....
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Housing Program Wastes $45 million and Not One House!
Tuesday, 8 September, 2009
The program is so mired in bureaucracy, delay and high administrative costs that $45 million has been spent for not one house....
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Education Revolution ‘Blowout’ hits $1.5 billion!
Tuesday, 8 September, 2009
The Government would now have to take more than $1.5 billion from other programs to keep the school funding going....
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$2400/hour for Labor’s Small Business Advice
Tuesday, 8 September, 2009
Labor is planning to spend $10 million over the next two years - the equivalent of $2400/hr - for a small business support line which is of highly questionable value to small business....
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School Signs Waste...
Tuesday, 8 September, 2009
These political signs will now have to be authorised or removed at additional expense to the taxpayer. State groups have expressed concern....
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$42 Billion Cash Splash Sends Taxpayer’s Money Overseas, to Criminals and Pets
Friday, 28 August, 2009
The Government will not say just how much of its latest cash splash has gone offshore. To receive the cash bonus you must have filed a 2007/08 tax return....
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Cash Splash Puts Triple A Credit Rating at Risk
Friday, 28 August, 2009
A string of budget deficits triggered by massive government spending could cost Australia it’s coveted triple A credit rating....
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Insulation Stimulus Dollars Benefit Overseas Suppliers
Wednesday, 26 August, 2009
Millions of stimulus dollars designed to protect Australian workers and industry from the global recession are being spent on overseas supplied home insulation batts....
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GROCERYchoice Debacle to front Senate Inquiry
Monday, 24 August, 2009
Treasury officials confirmed that consumer group Choice had secured an $8 million contract with Government intended to continue to March 2011. The Government shut down the site just days before it was to be launched in yet another example of how Australians are paying the price for Labor’s reckless spending....
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Labor’s Advertising Blowout Mars Digital TV Switch
Monday, 24 August, 2009
Labor’s cost for preparing the switchover of television from analogue to digital has increased 400 percent....
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Labor’s Taxpayer Funded Secret Wastes $1.2 million/year
Monday, 24 August, 2009
Labor’s ‘Caucus Support and Training Unit’ is wasting $992,979 on wages and $62,586 on travelling costs annually. Labor’s Unit, supposedly set up to organise government MP’s, spends much of it’s time trawling the media to promote Kevin Rudd and the Labor Party and training electorate staff in campaigning for marginal seats....
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GROCERYchoice Canned Wasting Millions
Wednesday, 15 July, 2009
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....
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Consultancies Almost $800 Million Since Election!
Thursday, 9 July, 2009
The Rudd Labor Government has awarded $784 million worth of consultancy contracts since the 2007 election, including $520 million in the 2008/09 Financial Year....
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Exactly how much wasted on GROCERYchoice?
Monday, 29 June, 2009
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....
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