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Questioning in Senate Estimates today showed that the Labor Party has been cooking the books to make their spending plans look better.
 
In the budget the Labor Party brought forward about $1.5 billion, which was earmarked for spending in future years for State and Local Governments, to this financial year.
 
"Much of this will be paid on June 7. It is not clear what State and Local governments will do with the money for the 23 days that will be left in this financial year. Perhaps the interest will help their bottom line at the expense of the Commonwealth's", Senator Barnaby Joyce said.
 
"The Government could not provide a cogent reason for bringing forward this spending. They could not produce one letter from a local government requesting an early transfer of spending.”
 
"Labor has produced an accounting trick to increase the base of their funding in 2009-10 and therefore make the amount they can spend higher under the 2% expenditure cap in forward years.”
 
"The Government's financial acumen is demonstrated by them losing $11 million on the Sydney West Metro project. In last year's budget the Government gave NSW $91 million for this project. Not much more than six months later the NSW government scrapped the project, with $11 million of the Commonwealth’s contribution going west on helpful things like ‘consultant fees’.”
 
"This is another clear example that the Australian people simply cannot trust this Labor Government to deliver economic responsibility.”
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# Lorikeet
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 7:04 PM
Oh well, that's the name of the game. Throw government money away, corporatise everything so the government cannot make any money, cause the consumer to pay through nose, sell resources to China for a song, and there you have it!

The Crush Australia Policy in action.
# Murray Buzza
Monday, May 31, 2010 4:09 PM
Perhaps you should ask Kevin to apply the super profits tax to those companies who have clearly rorted Julia's school building program.Probably won't happen if they are big donors to the Labor Party.
# Lorikeet
Tuesday, June 01, 2010 7:01 PM
I think the super profits tax has been brought in so that mining companies can pretend they are closing, get rid of Australian workers, and then bring in more Asians on visas who will work for low wages.

I'd call that the Slave Labor Party in action.

Aborigines who have been effectively locked out of Cape York under Wild Rivers legislation are still hoping to receive some housing in that area from the Queensland government.

I thought they would already know that the whole area is being turned over to the possums.
# Ruby of Toowoomba
Friday, June 04, 2010 1:31 AM
This is the worst phase in Australia's history. We are being governed by complete lying numskulls. I just cannot believe the revelations we are getting every day. More millions of dollars being wasted. More lies and spin from the PM.
and his cohorts. They are shameless.

It is like the world has gone mad. We are being told by the Govt that black is white. The Govt is saying that the mining industry is lying and underpaying tax. I do not believe it.

Question time is an unbelievable disaster. The Govt members are so arrogant, smug and deceitful. I would not blame the Opposition if they walked out en masse and refused to attend. The speaker is disgraceful and makes no effort to
control the Govt side.

If they are not thrown out at the next election Australia faces a dim future.
I think the conservative party should pursue the Greens. The Labor Party have done enough damage to themselves but the people are still being deceived as to the true nature of the Greens. A Green Socialist Party who have already done untold damage to this country with their mad environmental schemes.

# Lorikeet
Friday, June 04, 2010 7:25 PM
Ruby of Toowoomba:

At voting time, I have a simple rule which I intend to apply.

The Greener the party, the lower they go down the voting order.

A Green candidate seems pleased that Coalition and Labor are both going down in the polls, with Greens now polling at 16%. If he was not so stupid, he would realise that the Greener you are, the more people hate you. What a dingbat!

The world isn't nearly as mad as it will become in the future, if people don't wake up to the Global Corporate Neo-Communist Agenda supported by numerous numbskulls throughout the world.

I hope everyone is paying attention to what has happened to Greece.

The word on the ground here in Queensland is that both Labor and LNP are about to explode, with 2 or more LNP members becoming Independents. Wise move! And only 2 days after I first predicted it.

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