PIRSA has appointed a private investigator to help investigate the ‘Cartridgegate’ scandal in its department, it was revealed to the Legislative Council Budget and Finance Committee today. The private investigator is Peter Warner, a former police officer who served in the South Australian and Northern Territory police forces, and runs the private investigation firm Warner…
Tasmania is the latest state to oppose controversial ‘harmonised’ Work, Health and Safety laws commencing on 1 January 2012. Yesterday, the Tasmanian Legislative Council voted 11-3 to amend the Work, Health and Safety Bill to delay commencement until 1 January 2013. The Bill was sent back to the House of Assembly for further debate in…
The Liberal Opposition will move this week to prevent the Government’s controversial Work, Health and Safety legislation from commencing on 1 January 2012. The South Australian Government has announced it wants debate on the Work, Health and Safety Bill completed this week to enable the law to commence at the start of next year. Shadow…
The Labor Government’s handling of the Freedom of Information process on ‘Cartridgegate’ shows it is just as secretive and unaccountable under Jay Weatherill as Mike Rann. “Nine weeks after first lodging an FOI request for documents on ‘Cartridgegate’ the Weatherill Government has finally responded by refusing access to all 423 documents relevant to the application,”…
Premier Weatherill needs to explain why the Labor Government gave a contract extension to Spotless worth more than $100 million over three years without going to competitive tender, Shadow Finance Minister Rob Lucas said today. Evidence given to the Legislative Council Budget and Finance Committee this week by Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure Chief…
Further details on the extent of the ‘Cartridgegate’ scandal were released by Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure Chief Executive Rod Hook today. Mr Hook told the Legislative Council Budget and Finance Committee they had uncovered “two instances” of printer cartridge rorting in the Department. Mr Hook indicated that incidents within Services SA and the…
Treasurer Snelling has acknowledged what the Liberal Opposition has known for some time now – SA Health is in financial crisis. The Liberal Opposition asked Mr Snelling yesterday to confirm that, at the end of the 2010-11 financial year, private consultants PKF had to be appointed to fix a significant financial mess in SA Health.…
Shadow Finance Minister Rob Lucas has written to the Auditor-General advising him he believes senior Treasury officers concealed the fact they had been aware of ‘Cartridgegate’ abuses for almost 18 months. “Information provided to the Liberal Party indicates that senior Treasury officers were aware of significant abuses by Treasury officers as long ago as June/July…
Shadow Finance Minister Rob Lucas today accused Premier Weatherill and the Labor Government of a disgraceful attempted whitewash of the ‘Cartridgegate’ scandal. “Rather than ensuring an independent investigation by appointing the Auditor-General under the Public Finance and Audit Act, Mr Weatherill has appointed a committee of public servants called the ‘Procurement Working Group’,” Mr Lucas…
Further information leaked to the Liberal Party has confirmed three more government agencies have been implicated in the growing ‘Cartridgegate’ scandal, Shadow Finance Minister Rob Lucas said today.. Embarrassingly for Treasurer Snelling, his own Treasury and Finance portfolio is now implicated together with the Department for Families and Communities (DFC) and Primary Industries (PIRSA). This…