Four years of unprecedented waste
23 Nov 2011
Media release Labor’s four years in power has seen unprecedented waste and mismanagement of taxpayers’ money.
No major spending programme has been immune from waste, mismanagement, bungles and backflips.
No Labor Minister has taken responsibility for their actions, instead denying, deceiving and dodging culpability.
The shameful consequence is billions of dollars of lost opportunities.
The largest example of waste has been Julia Gillard’s own school hall programme.
Within six months the programme had blown out by $1.7 billion.
Since then, the failure of the Prime Minister to heed warnings, to listen and to address problems resulted in billions being lost in inflated fees, rorts, rip-offs and state skimming.
So too went the computers in schools programme, Labor’s flagship education policy from 2007.
It is now $1.4 billion over budget and hundreds of thousands of computers away from meeting its December deadline.
Supposedly free computers now include fees and charges for families already struggling with cost of living pressures and higher electricity prices.
However the largest most calamitous example of waste and mismanagement was the roof batts programme where the final cost was higher than anyone should ever pay.
Linked to house fires and tragic deaths, the roof batts programme is a black mark on Labor that will haunt them forever.
The Minister who oversaw it still sits in Julia Gillard’s cabinet, now in charge of schools.
To not demand Peter Garret’s resignation is a failure of leadership from a Prime Minister who is herself responsible for unprecedented waste and mismanagement.
November 23, 2011
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