The Government’s claim that the Liberal Party has admitted its own policy will put up unemployment is another Labor lie, Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today. “Liberal policies being announced through this campaign will improve job growth in South Australia, particularly compared to Labor’s poor performance on job growth relative to national job growth since…
Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today that Treasurer Kevin Foley had squibbed attending a land tax protest meeting held in the vital electorate of Norwood last night. Between 200 and 300 long-suffering South Australian taxpayers attended the meeting in the Norwood Town Hall to express their concern to Mr Foley and other members of the…
Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas today welcomed an announcement from independent credit rating agency Standard and Poor’s that a Liberal Government would not be a threat to the state’s AAA credit rating. “Treasurer Foley made a series of outrageous claims yesterday that if a Liberal Government was elected the state’s AAA credit rating would be at…
Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas today welcomed an announcement from independent credit rating agency Standard and Poor’s that a Liberal Government would not be a threat to the state’s AAA credit rating. “Treasurer Foley made a series of outrageous claims yesterday that if a Liberal Government was elected the state’s AAA credit rating would be at…
A Liberal Government would cut Labor waste to fund high priority areas including tax relief and concessions, mental health, disability services, education, police and roads. Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said up to $300 million a year could be saved to pay for significant new funding commitments in these high priority areas. “Liberal promises during this…
Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today that Mr Foley had embarrassed himself and the Labor Government in a 45-minute closed door briefing for journalists in a desperate attempt to defend his government’s disappointing economic record. “However, no amount of political spin from Mr Foley could hide the brutal truth that South Australia’s economic growth and…
The Government has refused to release 26 of 29 documents requested under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws relating to the taxpayer-funded settlement with the Premier’s former adviser Randall Ashbourne, Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today. But the three documents that were released reveal Mr Ashbourne was paid at least $443,500, including all of his legal…
Premier Rann and Treasurer Foley made no mention of a multi-million dollar Government financial assistance package to Ingham in their public statement on the issue, Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today. “The Premier, in a number of media statements, has deliberately not mentioned a $46 million State Government assistance package in which the State Government…
Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today the State Government would have to do better than sending out Jay Weatherill to claim incorrectly that there was a ‘gaffe’ in the Liberal Party costings for its ground-breaking concessions policy. This new utilities allowance is based on similar Commonwealth payments, with similar eligibility rules. The Federal Government has…
The State Ombudsman has intervened and taken action to stop the Rann Government from refusing to consider a number of Freedom of Information (FOI) applications until after the coming election, Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today. “In December last year the Rann Government and its officers tried to delay responding to 30 FOI applications from…