Shadow Minister for Finance Rob Lucas said today that recent estimates of the total cost of government advertising “significantly underestimated” the real total cost of government advertising to taxpayers. Evidence given today to a Legislative Council Select Committee by senior Health Department officers confirmed that the Rann Government had allocated $2.2 million for an advertising…
The Rann Government was paying former Adelaide 36ers boss Mal Hemmerling about $1000 per day for a job even though there was no valid current contract for his job. Evidence to the Legislative Council Budget and Finance Committee by Ian Nightingale, CEO of the Department for Planning and Local Government, confirmed that Mr Hemmerling had…
Contrary to the chest beating last week – and over the last 10 years – by Premier Mike Rann and Treasurer Kevin Foley over the supposed evils of the SA Water “privatisation” contract, the Rann Government had already taken the secret decision to continue the “privatisation” if re-elected in March 2010. “Prior to the 2002…
The CEO of the Department for Education and Children’s Services had confirmed the Rann Government was implementing “budget savings” of $120 million over the budget forward estimates period. “Mr Chris Robinson told the Legislative Council Budget and Finance Committee that savings required this year were $10 million, increasing to annual savings of $49 million in…
Evidence today from officers of the National Audit Office to a Parliamentary Committee had confirmed that many of Mr Rann’s controversial government advertising campaigns would be banned if federal guidelines were applied. Mr Robert Holbert and Mr Michael White, from the National Audit Office, today gave evidence to the Legislative Council Select Committee on Government…
Admissions by Health Minister John Hill about the confidential information missing on a lost USB memory stick meant an inquiry by the Auditor General was essential. This morning on ABC Radio, Minister Hill finally confirmed confidential information was on the USB and that “there is always a risk that somebody has found it and somebody…
Claims made last weekend by the Premier – through a spokeswoman – about probity concerns with Labor Party fundraisers and bidders for major government contracts were WRONG. “Last weekend, Mr Rann was under attack because he and his Ministers were involving themselves in major Labor Party fundraisers with bidders and advisers during the actual bidding…
The Auditor-General should provide advice urgently on whether it is appropriate for the Premier and other Ministers to be involved in Labor Party fundraising events organised through SA Progressive Business with bidders and advisers involved in a public-private partnership bidding process. “For example, documents obtained under Freedom of Information demonstrate that during the expressions of…
The Rann Labor Government would still be able to spend millions of taxpayers’ dollars on political government advertising under its supposed new policy. “Whilst this small change is supported, it is a cynical move by Mr Rann,” Shadow Minister for Finance Rob Lucas said today. “After almost eight years and millions of dollars that have…
Stunning revelations at a Parliamentary Committee had revealed massive breaches of the Rann Government’s own advertising guidelines and, in particular, that 24 separate advertising campaigns in the last three years had not been approved by the government body established for approval. “Mr Chris Eccles, Chief Executive of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet (DPC),…