The number of surplus employees under the Rann Government was now 275 and growing, and costing tax payers almost $20 million every year, Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today. “Minister Weatherill told Estimates Committee last week the number of surplus employees was now 275, rather than the previously announced 174 employees,” Mr. Lucas said. “These…
DetailsClaims by a Rundle Street nightclub owner that police have not responded to a complaint about counterfeit $50 notes needed to be investigated urgently, Shadow Police Minster Rob Lucas said today. “The nightclub owner has told me that three weeks ago a patron had passed two counterfeit $50 notes at his nightclub. The owner then…
DetailsThree specially trained drug detection dogs cannot do their job because the Rann Government has not introduced legislation to give SAPOL the necessary powers, Shadow Police Minister Rob Lucas said today. The three Labradors, Molly, Jay and Hooch, and their handlers are part of the Dog Operations Unit and were specially trained during June to…
DetailsThe Auditor General appears to have criticised unfairly the actions of the Police Commissioner and SAPOL in a recent DNA case, Shadow Police Minister Rob Lucas said today. “On September 6, 2006, when giving evidence to the ‘Stashed Cash’ Select Committee, the Auditor General launched a blistering attack on SAPOL for not cooperating with an…
DetailsShadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today that Estimates Committee questioning of the Treasurer showed that taxpayers will be paying $13 million per year to the private sector for the six proposed ‘super schools’. “Given that Mr Foley has estimated the total cost of the private sector investment will be $134 million, it seems a very…
DetailsThree specially trained drug detection dogs cannot do their job because the Rann Government has not introduced legislation to give SAPOL the necessary powers, Shadow Police Minister Rob Lucas said today. The three Labradors, Molly, Jay and Hooch, and their handlers are part of the Dog Operations Unit and were specially trained during June to…
DetailsShadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today that independent consultant reports and Treasury advice had raised doubts about the achievability of budget savings claimed by the Rann Government for its proposed Shared Services Centre. Mr. Lucas said the Shared Services Centre was the centrepiece of the government’s proposed savings programme and is proposed to centralise ‘back…
DetailsShadow 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…
DetailsShadow 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…
DetailsShadow 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…
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