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 Today’s Courier Mail reports that Labor will invest $200 million in regional cities following an interview it conducted with the Minister for Population, Tony Burke.1
But on 27 January 2011 the Prime Minister cut $100 million from this program to fund flood recovery in Queensland.2
The Minister’s own website reports that it is only a $100 million program.
The Building Better Regional Cities Program is a $100 million commitment by the Australian Government … 3
Minister Burke needs to come clean on what the actual size of this program is.
Whatever the figure, Labor’s program ignores towns with less than 30,000 people. It completely misses towns like Armidale, Mt Isa and Karratha.
If Labor can’t get these figures right how can we trust them with a $350 billion budget?
 
 
 
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# Lorikeet
Monday, May 09, 2011 5:01 PM
I think Labor is just unloading more bulldust. They haven't had an interest in building houses for decades.

Instead I'm sure they deliberately flooded Brisbane and Ipswich and let the banks get away with reneging on insurance claims, so their corporate mates could have the flood plains to build their Agenda 21 high rise cubbyholes.

Now they're cutting all of their environmental programs. What hypocrites!

If they build housing near mining centres (and that's a very big "if"), they will simply be accommodating imported workers from China and other countries willing to provide slave labour.

They're clearly more interested in slavery and corporate greed than anything that is good for ordinary Australians, whether they live in regional or urban areas.

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