Shadow Police Minister Rob Lucas has welcomed today’s extraordinary backflip by the Rann Government to include ecstasy belatedly in the state’s drug driving testing regime. “This is a major embarrassment for Mr Rann and Road Safety Minister Zollo, as they have strongly opposed Liberal Party calls for change for months,” Mr Lucas said today. “The…
The Rann Government’s ‘spin’ on crime figures has reached dizzying new heights with conflicting claims that increased police numbers had both increased and decreased some crime rates at the same time, Shadow Police Minister Rob Lucas said today. On 25 May 2006 Police Minister Holloway issued a press release headed ‘Crime rates continue to fall…
A business survey released today reveals most small and medium-sized businesses think the Rann Government’s policies are not supportive of small business, Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today. “As part of the Sensis® Business Index, small and medium enterprises in South Australia were asked whether they believe the Rann Government’s policies are supportive of small…
Big increases in the rates of crimes such as sexual offences, offences against good order and driving offences have been shown in previously unpublished crime statistics, Shadow Police Minister Rob Lucas said today. “Whilst the Rann Government is quick to boast about reductions in crime statistics for other crimes, they have not highlighted these worrying…
Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today Liberal Leader Iain Evans had announced the establishment of a Waste Watch Committee to target Rann Government waste over the next four years. “Mr Rann and Mr Foley have had $2.3 billion more to spend this year than the former Liberal Government had in its last year and yet…
Rann Government Minister Gail Gago has been caught out trying to pass the buck on a matter clearly in her portfolio but which she found too difficult to discuss, Shadow Police Minister Rob Lucas said today. “As Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Gail Gago has responsibility for the Controlled Substances Act that Independent…
Retail sales figures issued by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and a June survey of business intentions by the Engineering Employer Association (EEASA) were two further warning signs about the health of the South Australian economy, Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today. “The monthly survey by EEASA of South Australia’s metal and engineering industries…
Last year’s Auditor General’s report showed that about 30 state government departments and agencies had estimated that about $108 million of debts owed to government would be lost and not be able to be recovered, Shadow Treasurer, Rob Lucas said today. In simple terms this means that the Rann Government has made an allowance in…
Other Labor states are ‘leaving South Australia for dead’ by using significant private investment to help tackle massive public sector infrastructure backlogs, Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today. Other Labor state governments in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland are using Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to help tackle backlogs in funding for schools, hospitals, TAFEs,…
Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today senior public service executives were furious at Mr Rann’s broken promises on public service job cuts and have predicted hundreds of jobs will go, contrary to specific promises made by Mr Rann at the election. These senior public servants have leaked highly confidential details of an extraordinary Cabinet meeting…