Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today that Parliament’s Estimates Committee’s over the next week will try to find the details of $695 million in cuts to programmes and services announced in the September budget. “The budget is a little like an iceberg, because the Rann Government has only included the details of about 10 per…
Shadow Police Minister Rob Lucas said today Premier Rann’s supposed new announcement of a police plane had been first announced almost three years ago and had been re-announced at least a half dozen times! Premier Rann told the Annual General Meeting of the Police Association today that he was pleased to be making a ‘new…
Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today that Treasury officers had confirmed there had been a $10m error in last year’s budget paper estimates of the cost of providing pensioner concessions for Council rates. Evidence from the Local Government Association to the Property Taxation Select Committee last week indicated Treasury officers had told the LGA that…
Shadow Police Minister Rob Lucas said today that stunning revelations of alleged corruption by a police officer were a major embarrassment for Premier Rann and Police Minister Holloway. SAPOL has revealed the arrest of a 34 year old police officer who is alleged to have provided confidential information to ‘people engaged in organized crime with…
Premier Rann and Police Minister Holloway have to respond to suggestions that the abuse of public office allegations relating to a police officer extend to other people in a range of government departments and agencies, Shadow Police Minister Rob Lucas said today. “Media reports today claim police intelligence that girlfriends and wives of bikie gang…
The Rann Government’s dismal record on wage cost blowouts is placing extraordinary pressure on the budget bottom line, Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today. “In fact, over the last four budgets, actual wage cost increases have blown out by more than 100% at a cost to the budget bottom line of hundreds of millions of…
Police Minister Paul Holloway has approved a massive 55% increase in the target for speed detection hours by police for this year, Shadow Police Minister Rob Lucas said today. The target for speed detection hours this year (mobile cameras, mobile radars and lasers) is ≥ 125,000 compared to the target last year of 80,678 –…
There is a major division between two senior Rann Government Ministers over how they will achieve their key Budget measure of cutting 1571 public service jobs, Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today. “In yesterday’s Budget lock-up Treasurer Kevin Foley made it clear to journalists that targeted voluntary separation packages (TVSPs) would be offered to public…
There is a major division between two senior Rann Government Ministers over how they will achieve their key Budget measure of cutting 1571 public service jobs, Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today. “In yesterday’s Budget lock-up Treasurer Kevin Foley made it clear to journalists that targeted voluntary separation packages (TVSPs) would be offered to public…
The Rann Government’s budget documents reveal an unbudgeted blowout of almost 8000 public service positions over the last four years, Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today. “According to the Rann Government’s own budget papers, there has been an unbudgeted increase of 7750 full-time equivalent (FTE) public service positions over their four years at the helm,”…