Premier Mike Rann has been exposed as a weak ‘do nothing’ Premier when it comes to bikie gangs, Shadow Police Minister Rob Lucas said today. “After talking tough on bikie gangs and their fortresses for more than six years, he has failed to demolish one bikie fortress”, Mr Lucas said. “In fact, they are flourishing…
DetailsShadow 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsA 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…
DetailsBig 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rates of crimes such as sexual offences, offences against good order and driving offences have been shown in previously unpublished crime statistics, Shadow Police Minister Rob Lucas said today.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…
DetailsShadow 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…
DetailsRann 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…
DetailsRetail 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…
DetailsLast 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…
DetailsOther 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,…
DetailsShadow 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…
DetailsShadow Treasurer Rob Lucas said today the total number of ‘spin doctors’ and other Ministerial office staff was increasing so rapidly it appeared they were ‘breeding like flies’. “Mr. Rann is wasting about $20 million over four years by this explosion in the number of staff employed in Ministerial offices,” Mr. Lucas said today. “The…
DetailsShadow Police Minister Rob Lucas said today that the latest revelation about the driver caught speeding at 175 km/h with a blood alcohol level of 0.151 now raised the question as to how many other drivers have not lost their licences automatically as intended by the legislation. “This ongoing fiasco with the Rann Government’s road…
DetailsShadow Police Minister Rob Lucas said today Premier Rann stood condemned for another Rann Government ‘stuff up’ with road safety laws which potentially put at risk the lives of innocent drivers. “The most recent example revealed by police relates to a driver caught speeding at 175 km/h in a 60 km/h zone and who also…
DetailsShadow Police Minister Rob Lucas said today police officers were graduated last week without having completed critical sections of their training course to help the Rann Government ‘spin’ their message of 4000 police officers being employed before the end of June. Last Wednesday (June 28) 42 police officers in two courses of UK recruits graduated…
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