The Rann Government is wasting up to $20,000 per student in a new scheme sending foster children to some of South Australia’s most expensive non-government schools instead of government schools. “This scheme is being driven by Families and Communities Minister Jennifer Rankine and involves taxpayers paying full fees and costs including uniforms to send students…
DetailsPremier Rann and Treasurer Foley were desperate to avoid hard questions on their own black hole in the Labor Party’s costings document. “Mr Rann, Mr Foley and the Labor Party have failed to include one dollar in its spreadsheet for a stormwater pipe network, which will cost more than $1 billion,” Shadow Minister for Finance…
DetailsYesterday’s weak costings exercise by the Rann Government has once again demonstrated that Rann Labor is more about spin than substance. The failure of the Government to provide anything more than a flimsy two-page spreadsheet signed off by the Treasurer’s own political staff reveals its desperation to say and do anything to cling to power.…
DetailsLeaks from senior sources within Treasury had revealed that Treasurer Foley had been trying to conceal a $168 million wages blowout in the budget. “The attached leaked document from Treasury and the Industrial Relations unit of Premier and Cabinet shows the actual annual wage bill increase for public servants was 3.1 per cent instead of…
DetailsPremier Rann and the Labor Party had been embarrassingly caught out abusing the Government’s email database to circulate Labor Party campaign material to the state’s public servants. “This is also a clear breach of the Caretaker Conventions Mr Rann and his Government should be observing,” Shadow Minister for Finance Rob Lucas said today. “Mr Rann…
DetailsStatements made by Treasurer Foley defending taxpayer funded expenses for overseas trips were not supported by documents released under Freedom of Information and official parliamentary travel records. “Mr Foley’s first trip under the spotlight was a two week trip to the United States in August 2009,” Shadow Minister for Finance Rob Lucas said today. FOLEY…
DetailsLabor MP John Rau’s campaign material from last week had revealed that even Labor MPs would prefer Isobel Redmond to Mike Rann. “In an extraordinary revelation Mr Rau cynically has tried to give the impression he has the endorsement of Isobel Redmond when that isn’t the case,” Liberal MLC Rob Lucas said today. “The leaflet…
DetailsEducation Minister Jane Lomax-Smith had revealed why she needs to go back to school on the issue of schools across Adelaide. “Ms Lomax-Smith on radio this morning revealed she had no idea where Adelaide High School’s zone extended to,” Liberal MLC Rob Lucas said today. Lomax-Smith: “…I think Glengowrie is actually in the zone isn’t…
DetailsMike Rann today confirmed that the Labor Party’s factional divisions were deepening only days from the State Election. “When asked whether he would serve his full term as Opposition Leader if Labor loses Saturday’s election, Mr Rann told journalists “that’s to be determined by the Labor Party”. “Factional moves are getting stronger and senior Labor…
DetailsDocuments released under Freedom of Information revealed Premier Rann and Treasurer Foley had agreed secretly in the weeks leading up to the election to a massive $24,000 pay rise to a Ministerial staffer in Mr Foley’s office. “These documents reveal that Daniel Romeo, a 28 year-old Ministerial Adviser to Mr Foley, was in January this…
DetailsPremier Rann and Treasurer Foley had made yet another costings error with their $394 million Convention Centre expansion. Mr Rann and Mr Foley claimed today in their media release that the recurrent (or ongoing) cost of their promise was $394 million and the investing (or capital) cost was zero. “This is yet another embarrassing error…
DetailsLast night on the ABC program Stateline, Health Minister John Hill repeatedly refused to guarantee that Rann Labor’s Royal Adelaide Hospital plan would cost $1.7 billion. “In fact, the best Mr Hill could manage or stumble was that he “hoped” or he was “optimistic” or it would be “about” $1.7 billion,” Shadow Minister for Finance…
DetailsPremier Mike Rann’s supposed new policy to release Cabinet Documents after 10 years had been exposed as a political stunt and a farce. “In August 2009, Mr Rann announced with much fanfare his new policy of releasing Cabinet Documents after only 10 years,” Shadow Minister for Finance Rob Lucas said today. “From October the 1st…
DetailsTreasurer Foley has displayed his incompetence and negligence for all to see after admitting he had not undertaken a separate government costing of the Rann Government’s supposed $450 million Adelaide Oval redevelopment. “In December last year, Mr Rann and Mr Foley outlined a detailed “fly-over” plan to the media and the public and said the…
DetailsAttorney-General Michael Atkinson today refused to support statements made by Premier Rann on the issue of road safety and hoon driving. “When Mr Atkinson was asked on morning radio whether he, like Mr Rann, had more confidence in Police Commissioner Mal Hyde than some Magistrates, he delivered a vote of no confidence to the Premier.”…
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