The issue of shop trading hours has highlighted further divisions within the Labor Government, Shadow Industrial Relations Minister Rob Lucas said today. The Government recently announced a decision to extend trading hours in the CBD this coming Sunday to cater for tourists visiting South Australia on cruise ships Queen Mary II and Amadea However, prominent…
DetailsPremier Rann’s promise of an extra $4 million for our critical food and wine industries has been revealed as just another example of Rann Spin, Shadow Finance Minister Rob Lucas said today. Mr Rann has been boasting about keeping his election promise of additional support of $1 million per year for four years for the…
DetailsThe war between former Treasurer Foley and Minister Weatherill on public servants cashing out long service has flared again with today’s revelation an ‘Under Treasurer’s Instruction’ had been issued to all CEOs last year, Shadow Finance Minister Rob Lucas said. In evidence to the Budget and Finance Committee today senior PIRSA executives confirmed the Under…
DetailsNew Industrial Relations Minister Bernie Finnigan is a “lazy, insensitive log” for not having read a critical 40 page Corner’s report into a tragic workplace death, Shadow Industrial Relations Minister Rob Lucas said today. “It is unbelievable and unacceptable that 30 hours after the Coroner released his damning report, the Minister responsible for SafeWork SA…
DetailsPremier Rann must clarify why he allowed a consultant with contracts with the Rann Government worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to remain in the extremely sensitive and important position of Clerk of the Executive Council, Shadow Finance Minister Rob Lucas said today. This week’s Government Gazette advises that on 20 January 2011 the Governor,…
DetailsPremier Rann continues to waste hundreds of thousands of dollars on consultants whilst at the same time forcing savage budget cuts in hospitals and schools, Shadow Finance Minister Rob Lucas said today. Mr Lucas said the Liberal Party had been given a leaked copy of a quote from The Nous Group for $68,000 to ‘facilitate’…
DetailsRann Government mismanagement and another contractual dispute resulted in all work being stopped seven months ago on nine nearly completed housing trust units and four units for people with a disability. “These nine new units at Gilles Plains were originally meant to be completed in November 2009 and the four units at Elizabeth Grove in…
DetailsTreasurer Kevin Foley should withdraw from his upcoming three week trip to the USA if he is going to be leaving the Ministry in the coming weeks or months, Shadow Finance Minister Rob Lucas said today. “Given the increasing pressure on Mr Foley to resign and the likelihood he will do so it would be…
DetailsThe release of the latest batch of Federal Cabinet documents highlights the broken pre-election promise by Premier Rann to open access to all Cabinet documents after 10 years, Shadow Finance Minister Rob Lucas said today. In August 2009 Mr Rann announced with great fanfare his new policy of supposedly releasing Cabinet documents after only 10…
DetailsPremier Mike Rann has been forced to reveal that his own department has wasted $246,000 in twice remodelling the office of the CEO of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet. “Mr Rann was first asked in Parliament in October 2009 about this waste of money and had refused to answer the question for more…
DetailsShadow Minister for Finance Rob Lucas said today the Rann Government’s troubled Shared Services Project has had an incredible staff turnover of 32 per cent in just two years. Documents released under Freedom of Information legislation have revealed that 220 employees had left the Shared Services project in just two years from mid-2008 to mid-2010.…
DetailsPremier Rann’s promise after the election that he had “heard the message” and would “reconnect” with the community has been exposed as nothing more than a cruel hoax and political spin. After the first year of the new Parliament the Rann Government has refused to answer almost 3,000 questions on notice in the Parliament, some…
DetailsWhat Foley didn’t highlight: Total revenue up $52m this year Treasurer Kevin Foley’s concentration on declining GST revenues in the Mid-Year Budget Review is just another example of political spin. “What Mr Foley didn’t highlight today was that total estimated revenue for this year has actually increased by $52 million in just three months since…
DetailsThe Rann Government had rushed through a four year extension of the contract for Mr Rann’s Special Envoy to Europe Nicola Sasanelli in the last weeks before the state election. Evidence given today to the Legislative Council Budget and Finance Committee by Department of Trade and Economic Development CEO Lance Worrall revealed that Mr Sasanelli…
DetailsThe Rann Government has provided no evidence the public-private partnership deal for the Royal Adelaide Hospital would save $170 million, as originally promised. “Three years ago, when Mr Foley first announced the PPP deal, he promised the private sector option would save taxpayers at least $170 million, compared to the option of the Government building…
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