- 07 SEPTEMBER 2010
Baillieu Govt to build $130m Wallan-Kilmore Bypass - 07 SEPTEMBER 2010
Vic Coalition will upgrade Mildura Hospital - 06 SEPTEMBER 2010
Victoria suffers again with record assaults under John Brumby
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The Auditor-General has found more than 30 per cent of major contracts that should have been disclosed have not been disclosed. John Brumby promised to be open and transparent, but instead delivered the secret state.  |
Despite families already experiencing growing financial pressures, John Brumby is increasing taxes and charges.
After a decade of failure, things are only getting worse under John Brumby and Labor.
Since 2000, Labor has imposed 26 new and extended taxes on Victorian household budgets, yet our transport system is collapsing, hospitals are in crisis, we are paying more for water and violent crime is out of control in our suburbs.
Under John Brumby, state debt is rising fast.
Victorian families are being kept in the dark on how John Brumby will repay its enormous debt.
The 2010-11 State Budget forecast that net state debt would increase to $31.7 billion by 2014, with a $3.2 billion interest bill for Victorians to pay every year.
Future generations will be burdened with John Brumby’s state debt splurge and will have little to show for it aside from a continuing decline in services and crumbling infrastructure.
Meanwhile, John Brumby has wasted taxpayers’ money on the myki ticketing fiasco and other major project cost blowouts, while hospitals, public transport and law and order collapse under Labor.
- 07 SEPTEMBER 2010
Baillieu Govt to build $130m Wallan-Kilmore Bypass - 07 SEPTEMBER 2010
Vic Coalition will upgrade Mildura Hospital
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- Turmoil costs the community $12m
28 July 2010
VICTORIA'S economy lost at least $12 million in productivity yesterday because of the train chaos.
Employers were as angry as commuters, with businesses hit hard by late workers and disrupted meetings.
VECCI workplace relations policy manager Alexandra Marriott said the cost of lost productivity was staggering.
Read more - Power bills soar by $300
19 July 2010
Victorian households paying more than $300 a year extra in energy costs compared to in 2008.
Families in some country areas or Melbourne's northwest are worst off, hit with average increases of up to $440 in the same period, a new report shows.
Read more - Lenders trip cost taxpayers $18,000
01 July 2010
TREASURER John Lenders racked up a taxpayer-funded travel bill of more than $18,000 for a trip to India.
Mr Lenders and a member of his staff visited Mumbai and Bangalore on the February trip, spending $13,425 on air fares alone.
Mr Lenders also travelled to the US, Europe and Asia over recent summers, for a combined cost of more than $90,000, and the opposition accused the Treasurer of ''living easy'' as Victorian families struggled to get basic transport and health services.
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- 12 JULY 2010 – Channel 10 News
Five years after the Labor Government promised to introduce a “smart” ticketing system, myki is being slammed as the government's white elephant, with more than $1 billion of taxpayers’ money spent on a system that still does not work. - 23 JUNE 2010 – Channel 7 News
The Auditor-General has uncovered $3 billion in secret government deals with a third of major contracts, including public transport deals, hidden from the public. Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu says John Brumby is running a secret state. - 14 JUNE 2010 – Channel 9 News
John Brumby has spent over $1.2 million of taxpayers' money monitoring the media and analysing transcripts of every story broadcast or written about his government. This is on top of the cost of employing 26 media advisers.