David O’Byrne may wish the caravan has moved on, but it hasn’t – and he has serious questions to answer about his failures to properly administer the NBN4Business funding. Today, David O’Byrne was unable to deny he and his department failed to conduct any risk assessment prior to splurging money on the Government’s NBN4Business program.
O’Byrne misleads Parliament over NBN4Business
Last month David O’Byrne told parliament that stage one of the government’s NBN assistance package has been “fully and successfully delivered“.* Today we find out nothing could be further from the truth. The TCCI has done the right thing by handing back $130,000 of taxpayer funds provided for NBN4Business as a result of it voluntarily [...]
NBN Affair
The O’Byrne NBN affair of 2012 has all the hallmarks of the Bartlett Education Foundation debacle of 2009. In each case $250,000 of taxpayers’ money was provided to the TCCI to be spent on specific projects, but in each case the government failed to properly manage and show due concern for the appropriate expenditure of [...]
Debate on the regulation of Vocational Education and Training
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING (COMMONWEALTH POWERS) BILL 2011 [5.24 p.m.] Mr FERGUSON (Bass) – Mr Deputy Speaker, I will be leading the debate on this bill on behalf of the Opposition and I thank the minister for his second reading speech.
Undemocratic “Charter of Rights” killed off
In the Legislative Council today, the Government quietly killed off Lara Gidding’s major law reform policy for a Charter of Rights. Long-time anti-Charter protagonist and Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council, Doug Parkinson, appeared to take great pleasure in all but declaring the Charter of Rights dead.
