Letter to the Prime Minister dated 20 Jan 2023
Letter
to the Chair of the Productivity Commission dated 20 Sept 2023 Defined
Terms and Documents
Discussion Paper
Annexure B
Annexure A - An
embarrassment of critical reports and fault finding newspaper
articles chronicle that billions of taxpayer funded dollars have
been squandered annually on poorly planned and inadequately
appraised 'infrastructure projects'
resulting in -
The Commonwealth
Productivity Commission auditing a
Conforming Cost-Benefit Analysis that must be submitted (at
least six weeks prior to
Financial Close ) by the proponents of future government
infrastructure projects is
'the foundation, the corner stone' to materially halt the
horrendous waste over the last 10+ years of the
Public Purse which in Victoria and NSW now cannot meet other more vital social
needs
Central Business
District and South East Light Rail (CSELR) project
1.
Legislative
Council Public Accountability Committee's inquiry into the ‘Impact
of the CBD and South East Light Rail Project
2.
Sydney's light rail finally opens: what you need to know about trams - SMH
- Matt
O'Sullivan
- Dec 13, 2019
3.
Passengers are shunning Sydney’s new light rail
- news.com.au
- 19 Dec 2019
4.
NSW Auditor-General’s Report - CBD
and South East Light Rail Project
- Performance Audit
- Nov 2016
5.
NSW Auditor-General report
CBD South East Sydney Light Rail: follow-up performance audit
- 11 June 2020
6.
Sydney's light rail chaos: who is to blame for delays and cost
blowout? - The Guardian -
Anne Davies
Sat 21 Apr 2018
7.
Cost of Sydney light rail blows out, reporting questioned -
11 June, 2020 - Government News -
Judy Skatssoon
8.
Report card for light rail is in - and doesn't make for good reading
- 9 NEWS - 10 Dec 2020
9.
Sydney CBD and South-east Light Rail Project - Issues - 24
April 2020
http://fixnswtransport.com
10.
Transport for
NSW CBD AND SOUTH EAST LIGHT RAIL PROJECT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
STATEMENT – VOLUME 2 Technical Papers 1 and 2 -
NOVEMBER
2013
11.
Why do travellers prefer trains and light rail to buses?
Crikey
ALAN DAVIES
FEB 26,
2015
12.
Sydney City Centre Access Strategy
- December 2013
13.
Delays threaten Sydney cycleways as changes to Castlereagh Street
considered - SMH - Jacob Saulwick
- 12 Nov 2014
14.
Bike lanes out as George Street light rail project takes off
- SMH - 28 May 2015
15.
How
did Gladys make such heavy work of light rail?
SMH -
Jacob
Saulwick
- 29 June 2018
Further delays to Sydney CBD light rail construction leave retailers
struggling - SMH - Matt O'Sullivan - June 4, 2017
17.
NSW government failed to update public on true cost of light rail
- Tom Rabb & Matt O'Sullivan - 11 June 2020
18.
Sydney’s new light rail system criticised for cost blowouts and
overstated benefits - news.com.au - Dec 1, 2016
19.
NSW government told in 2012 light rail project would waste hundreds
of millions
7.30
Greg Miskelly
14 Sep 2018
Other light rail projects, interested
entities and associated reporting obligations
1.
'Gridlocked
and unworkable': Dire warning for Sydney's trains from former top
execs
- SMH -
Matt O'Sullivan December 19, 2017
2. NSW
Auditor General report on 2.7km Newcastle Light Rail
3. Case
for light rail lines in NSW takes a battering once again
4.
How
$4 billion blowout puts Sydney's rail transport plans on the line
- SMH - Matt O'Sullivan - 8 Feb 20
5.
6.
The toll roads that turn into money pits -
The Age - Matt O'Sullivan. 1
September 2010
7. Warning
that Sydney’s biggest rail project risks costing $27b and opening
late
SMH - Matt
O'Sullivan
Feb 8, 2021
8. Why
do travellers prefer trains and light rail to buses? Crikey
ALAN DAVIES
FEB 26,
2015
9.
Infrastructure Australia: Failing infrastructure wrecking
productivity - Leith van Onselen June 13, 2019
10.
What’s wrong with infrastructure decision making?
Conclusions from six UK case studies
11.
Infrastructure and Projects Authority U.K. - Mandate - Jan 2021 -
Reporting to Cabinet Office and HM Treasury
12.
Rail versus bus local public transport services in Italy: A social
cost comparison methodology
- Sept 2020
13.
Bus versus rail: Costs, capacities and impacts, Texas USA -
Leighton Walter Kille - 20 Nov 2009
14.
EcoTransit Sydney
-
Advocating for better public and active transport in NSW
15.
INDUSTRY
COMMISSION
- Urban Transport - Volume 1: Report No. 37 15 Feb 1994
16.
Australian Government Cost-Benefit Analysis website :
* Cost-Benefit
Analysis Guidance Note - March 2020
* COAG
Best Practice Regulation guide
*
Best Practice Regulation Guidance Note: Value of Statistical
Life
* Australian
Government Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis and Alternative
Evaluation Methodologies and Handbook of Cost-Benefit Analysis -
2006
17.
Australian Government Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) Preliminary
Assessment Form - March 2020
18.
Caution urged in states costing big transport projects after
blowouts - SMH - Tom Rabe & Matt O'Sullivan - 22 Feb '20
19.
Sydney
CBD station looms as biggest challenge for flagship Metro rail
project - SMH - Matt O'Sullivan - 9 Feb '21
20.
Light rail’s online, but more to come for Sydney -
THE AUSTRALIAN -
MILANDA ROUT -
6 Feb 2020
22.
Have U.S. Light Rail Systems Been Worth the Investment? - 10
Apr '14 - Despite modest success, most systems have neither
increased mass transit commute share nor the vitality of city
centers. Bloomberg
23.
Sydney eyes BYD electric buses to silence noisy inner west -
TheDriven - 28 June 2019
24.
Room at the top: double-decker buses return to Sydney - SMH
- 24 Aug 2012
25.
NSW to roll out 120 electric buses in 2021 ahead of full transition
-
TheDriven
- 2 Dec 2020
26.
Australia’s Largest Order of E-Buses Placed to date -
Australia Bus & Coach - 3 Dec 2020
27.
End of the Line: Long-Ignored Sydney Monorail Makes Its Final Trip
- Wired - 7 Sept 2013
28.
Sydney monorail makes its last loop after 25 years of service
The Sunday Telegraph - Leigh van den Broeke - 1 July 2013
29.
End of the Line for the Sydney Monorail - Metroplanners
@Metroplanners
Tim Grzesiakowski
30.
Long-term Strategic Plan for Rail - Greater Sydney metropolitan
region - Overview report - June 2001
- 89 page overview
report prepared by Ron Christie when Co-ordinator-General of Rail in
June 2001
31.
NSW Parliament acceptance on 9 May
2002 of
Ron Christie, Co-ordinator-General of Rail's June 2001 report
titled "Long-term Strategic Plan for
Rail"
32.
Auditor General condemns Tibby Cotter bridge cost blow-out
- SMH - Jacob Saulwick - 17 Sept 2015
33.
Cost far outweighs
benefit: Sydney’s $11b airport rail link slammed
- SMH - Tom
Rabe and Matt O'Sullivan -
March 12, 2021
34.
Decade in power: How risks are rising for Sydney’s mega rail
projects -
SMH - Matt
O'Sullivan - March 22, 2021
35.
Commonwealth expenditure: legality and scrutiny -
Daniel Weight,
Economics
36.
Specific purpose payments and the Australian federal system -
Research
Paper no. 17 2007–08 -
Scott Bennett ,
Politics and
Public Administration Section
Richard Webb ,
Economics
Section - 14 Jan 2008
37.
Does the Commonwealth have constitutional power to take over the
administration of public hospitals?
Research Paper
no. 36 2008–09,
Sharon Scully, 30
June 2009 -
" This
research paper finds that, despite the absence of an explicit public
hospitals power in section 51 of the Constitution, several factors
may enable the Commonwealth to do so; in particular, the continuing
fiscal dominance of the Federal Government."
38. The
secret $53m Sydney land deal that has left NSW taxpayers with an
even bigger clean-up bill
Adele Ferguson ,
Matt O'Sullivan
and Chris Gillett
- Nov 16, 2020
39. Are
you Stoked by NSW planning
vision? Don’t be - beneath its friendly cloak lurks Jack the Ripper
40.
Bike-friendly, green space, working from home: New planning
blueprint for life after COVID-19 - SMH - Angus Thompson Feb
26, 202
41.
The Social Losses from Inefficient Infrastructure Projects: Recent
Australian Experience - Henry Ergas (Independent) - Alex R.
W. Robson (Griffith University) - 80 Pages : 11 Sep 2009
42.
Metro Tunnel's $2.7 billion budget blowout revealed
- The Age -
Timna Jacks - 11 Dec 2020
43.
Cross River Rail cost blowout means project doesn’t stack up -
Queensland Economy Watch
- Gene
Tunny - 26 Feb 2020
44.
Cross River Rail: privatisations, cost over-runs, and no patrons
-
Economics , Government , Infrastructure , News , Publications
-
Graham Young
30 Oct 2020
45.
Cost-benefit does not add up: Three WA projects worth $1b fall short
of priority list standards
- WAtoday -
Peter de Kruijff - 11 Feb 2021
46.
Mega transport projects mean mega cost blowouts: new Grattan report
-
Marion Terrill
-
8 Nov 2020
47.
The huge $28 billion cost of transport infrastructure cost blowouts
-
Grattan Institute ,
-
Marion Terrill
- 24 October 2016
48.
Another cost blowout for Gawler train line upgrade
- InDaily
-
Jemma Chapman – 24 Jan 2022
49.
Spectacular cost blowouts show need to keep governments honest on
transport -
ABCNews - 24 Oct 2016
50.
'I am sorry': NSW Transport Minister concedes metro line will blow
out by $3 billion - SMH - Matt O'Sullivan - February 21,
2020
51.
NSW Government confirms $3 billion Sydney Metro cost blowout
- Infrastructure Magazine - 21 Feb 2021
52.
The rise of megaprojects: counting
the costs
-
Grattan Institute -
Marion Terrill , Owain
Emslie and Greg
Moran - 8 Nov 2020
53.
Transport Minister confident in new train rollout despite union
dispute - SMH - Tom Rabe - 1 April 2012
54.
Western Sydney Aerotropolis rezoning submissions detail heartbreak
after homes rendered 'worthless' - ABCNews – 3
April 2021
55.
Taxpayers lose out when governments rush transport projects
SMH Marion
Terrill and Lachlan
Fox - July 6, 2021
55.a
The holy grail for pork-barrelling is surely transport projects - The Grattan Institute - Marion Terrill,
TRANSPORT AND CITIES PROGRAM DIRECTOR
- 21 March 202256.
There’s every reason politicians’ pork-barrelling should be made
illegal -
The Age - 5 July 2021
57. ‘It
could never have been built’: Labor pinpoints holes in the pork
barrel
Tom
Cowie
SMH -
July 3, 2021
58.
‘Harebrained idea’: Secret plan to commercialise state’s public
transport, roads - SMH - Adele Ferguson and Matt
O'Sullivan - August 19, 2021
59.
Papers on Parliament No. 36 - June 2001 - Tony Harris
"Auditors-General: Policies and Politics"
60.
‘Vehicles
for deception’: Transport plan fails the truth test
61.
PM’s surprise investment in a better class of economic debate pays
off - SMH - Ross Gittins - Economics Editor - August 27,
2021
62.
State government finances in turmoil as Auditor-General plays
hardball - SMH - Adele Ferguson and Matt O'Sullivan - Dec
14, 2021
63.
Four ministers tasked with troubled NSW roads and transport sector
- SMH - Tom Rabe - 20 Dec 2021
64.
Inside the Premier's wonderworld of grants and wishes granted
- SMH - Tony Harris November 25, 2020
65.
Former NSW Auditor-General Tony Harris on trust, corruption and
integrity - Saturday, 2 October 2021
66.
A Submission to the Independent Review of the Public Interest
Disclosure Act 2012 by Tony Harris - 19 July 2019
67.
Review of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2012 (ACT) 30-Sept-2019
68.
Former NSW auditor general blasts Coalition for attempting to
'reduce scrutiny of government' activities - The Guardian -
2 Nov 2020
69.
Urban congestion funding for Coalition and marginal seats far
outstrips safe Labor seats, report finds - The Guardian - 20
Mar 2022
70.
Liberal MP: Politicians ‘addicted’ to buying votes, take spending
out of their hands - SMH -
Matthew
Knott
27 March 2022
71.
How predictable: another megaproject has suffered another cost
blowout Grattan Institute - Marion Terrill - 11 Aug 2021
72.
They keep bringing a bigger barrel - Grattan Institute -
Marion Terrill - 21 March 2022
73.
NT Government reveals $7 million budget blowout for underground car
park in State Square - ABC News - 9 Dec 2020
74.
The cost of letting politicians near infrastructure runs into the
billions of dollars of extra costs for taxpayers -
Crikey - 17 May 2021
75.
Megabang
for
megabucks:
Driving
a
harder
bargain
on
megaprojects
- 4 May 2021
75.
Improving the process for public transport patronage forecasting
- Australasian Transport Research Forum - Gary McGregor and Tim
Raimond
76.
Of Australia’s 32 biggest infrastructure projects, just eight had a
public business case
- The Conversation -
Marion Terrill - 7 Sept 2021
77.
NSW budget 2022 reveals cost blowout in metro tunnels under Sydney
Harbour of around $6b - ABC News -
Tim Swanston -
21 June 2022
78.
Inflation has surged to a 21-year high. What is it and why does it
matter? - SBS -
27 July 2022
79.
Anthony Albanese should take his own advice on infrastructure
- Marion
Terrill
- Australian Financial Review
- 27 July 2022
80.
Infrastructure Australia board members step down ahead of review
- SMH -
July 22, 2022
81.
First things first -
The
State
Infrastructure
Strategy
2012
–
2032
82.
CBD
and
South
East
Light Rail:
key
sources
83.
Transport for NSW - Cost-Benefit Analysis Guide
84.
High Speed Rail Authority legislation introduced to Parliament
85.
High-speed Sydney to Melbourne rail plan ‘will never work’:
infrastructure tsar -
SMH -
Michael
Koziol
Dec 8, 2022
86.
Revealed: Secret high-speed rail plan backs Newcastle, Sydney,
Wollongong link -
SMH
Michael
Koziol
Dec 24, 2022
87.
A European high-speed rail network: not a reality but an ineffective
patchwork
88.
Fact Sheet | High Speed Rail Development Worldwide
89.
High
Speed Rail is an Unprofitable Train Wreck
90.
The High-Speed Rail Money Sink Why the United States Should Not
Spend Trillions on Obsolete Technology - Randal O’Toole -
Cato Institute 20 April 2021
91.
A budget of failed cost control and infrastructure blowouts,
Victoria - 20 May 2021
92.
Senate report blasts ARTC, federal government management of 'nation
building' Inland Rail project -
ABC
Southern Qld
- 13 Aug 2021
93.
Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport
References
Committee - Inland
Rail:
derailed
from
the
start
- August
2021
94.
Victoria cannot afford more Labor – AFR - Nov 23, 2022
95.
New report exposes high salaries of Victoria suburban rail loop
execs -
RACHEL BAXENDALE
@rachelbaxendale
- DEC 27, 2022
96.
Victorians are ‘not going to be able to afford’ Daniel Andrews 'for
much longer'
97.
‘Grey
corruption’ cuts our living standards, so it’s a shame they shelved
the integrity commission -
Danielle Wood
CEO, Grattan Institute
February 15, 2022
98.
Controversial rail corporation granted another two-year tax break
- SMH - Matt O'Sullivan - 6 May 2022
99.
Cost blowouts for Queensland projects caused partly by ‘poor
contract management’
–The
Guardian - 17 May 2022
100.
‘Astonishing’ cost blowouts put rail upgrades off track -
The Courier Mail
101.
‘Poor planning’: $127m wasted after bureaucratic bungles -
The Courier Mail
102.
Qld Govt not learning from mistakes: audit -
The Canberra Times - Marty Silk
- October
31 2022
103.
Billion-dollar infrastructure budget blowout highlights impact of
labour, supplies shortages - WA - ABC News -
Rebecca Turner and Jacqueline
Lynch
Fri 13 May 2022
104.
Public Infrastructure - Qld Auditor General - Inquiry report -
14 July 2014
105.
'Humiliating' infrastructure cost blow-outs near $5b a year
- SMH - Jenny Wiggins - August 13, 2014
106.
Infrastructure Minister Tom Koutsantonis 'not surprised' by
North-South Corridor project cost blowout (SA) - ABC News
- 24 June 2022
107.
Adelaide North-South Corridor road project cost blows out to $15.4
billion with 524 properties to go -
ABC News
Patrick Martin and Rory
McClaren
108.
North-South Corridor Project - Attorney-General's Department
109.
Budget blowouts and broken promises: how to avoid project failures
- Macquarie Business School - 19 January 2021
110.
Transport boss flags North-South Corridor cost blowout – but won’t
name price -
InDaily
Thomas
Kelsall - 21 Nov 22
111.
With gold-plated South Road, we don't know what we're missing –
InDaily David
Washington @davidwashingto2
22 Dec
2022
112.
South Australian opposition calls on government to release a review
into North-South Corridor project - ABC News
-
Claire Campbell and Josephine
Lim -
21 Aug 2022
113.
Welcome to the River Torrens to Darlington Project (SA) -
DIT - 16 Dec 2022
114.
McGowan Government (WA) slammed in Auditor General report over $600m
in project cost blowouts -
Josh
Zimmerman
115.
Fourfold budget blowout for promised Greencard overhaul -
The Mercury, Tasmania
116.
NT Government reveals $7 million budget blowout for underground car
park in State Square -
ABC News - Jano
Gibson
117.
Taxpayers pick up tab for billions wasted on megaproject blowout
bungles -
news.com
-
Benedict
Brook - May 17,
2021
118.
Inland Rail probed for budget blowout (ACT) - The Canberra
Times
119.
LABOR’S
WEST GATE TUNNEL CHAOS CONTINUES WITH LATEST BLOWOUT
-
120.
Modelling Approaches of Life Cycle Cost–Benefit Analysis of Road
Infrastructure: A Critical Review and Future Directions -
Dept. of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece - 30
Dec '22
121.
Implementing life cycle cost analysis in road engineering: A
critical review on methodological framework choices -
University of Antwerp - Nov 2020
122.
The Shepherd Review - Statement of National Challenges - Why
Australians are struggling to get ahead - 27 March 2017
122.
A wake-up call for the spendthrift political class
- The Australian -
Jan 27, 2017
123.
The Economic Challenges Facing Australia” - Address by MRC Director
Tony Shepherd AO, Bond Business Leaders Forum
- June 27, 2017 - Bond Uni Media Team
124.
Qld. spendthrift treasurer doesn’t have a clue -
The Australian -
Judith Sloan -
June
12, 2019
125.
ALP turns blind eye to $88bn debt
-
The Australian -
By JAMIE
WALKER
SEAN PARNELL -
JUNE 12, 2019
126.
Crossbencher, Helen Haines, on Morrison and integrity
- August 18, 2022 -
Michelle Grattan - Grattan Institute
127.
State agencies warned about over-reliance on consultants
-
www.governmentnews.com.au -
Judy Skatssoon -6 Jan 2023
128.
Sydney metro lines will spark economic renaissance, says New York’s
‘train daddy’ -
SMH -
Matt
O'Sullivan
January 11, 2023
129.
London facing new Tube strike threat from March ahead of London
Underground 'Elizabeth Line' walkout -
Ross Lydall -
Tues, 10 Jan 2023 – Yahoo News
130.
A ‘cancer on our democracy’: How to fix Australia’s pork-barrelling
crisis -
SMH -
Jessica
Irvine
April 26, 2022
131.
Internal controls and governance 2022 - NEW SOUTH WALES
AUDITOR-GENERAL’S REPORT - 20 Dec 2022
132.
$1 billion cost blowout in Westconnex gateway project to Sydney
Airport -
SMH -
Matt
O'Sullivan -
August 10, 2017
133.
Powers and jurisdiction of the Houses
134.
Australia's longest road tunnel locked in for Blue Mountains
- NSW Government - 15 May 2022
135.
Questions hang over funding for major Great Western Highway tunnel
through Blue Mountains - ABC News - 22 May 2022
136.
Snail rail : why are trams in
Australian cities running slower than they were 100 years ago?
-
The Guardian -
Elias Visontay Transport
and urban affairs reporter -
Sun 22 Jan 2023
137.
Cost of new motorway under Sydney Harbour blows out by $1.4 billion
–
SMH –
Matt
O'Sullivan
-
10 April
2023
138.
New metro rail line under Sydney Harbour risks blowing out to $20.5
billion
– SMH –
Matt
O'Sullivan
-
13 April
2023
139.
NSW government launches Sydney Metro review amid $21bn cost blowout
- Guardian -
13 April
2023
140.
NSW
Treasurer admits $7b budget blowout will make surplus ‘much harder’
- SMH - 17 April 2023
141. ‘When
you change the government you change the country’. Today, it’s the
other way round
Malcolm Knox - 15 April 2023
142.
How an obscure shooting association grant brought down Gladys
Berejiklian
-
ABCNews - 3 Oct 2021
143.
Bridget McKenzie's sport grant cash splash is a particularly brazen
example of pork-barrelling - ABC News - 16 Jan 2020
144.
Bridget McKenzie facing calls to quit after auditors condemn
'biased' sports cash splash - ABC News - 16 Jan 2020
145.
$100m sport grant scheme 'illegal' according to former senior
government lawyer – ABC News
- 22 Nov 2019
146.
Pork-barrelling is unfair and wasteful. Here’s a plan to end it
Grattan Institute : Aug
22, 2022
147.
Spending restraint will largely define May budget: Albanese
- SMH -
Anna Patty - 18 April 2023
148.
The long history of political corruption in NSW — and the downfall
of MPs, ministers and premiers - ABC News - 15 Oct
2020
149.
Billion dollar blowouts in major projects predictable - and
avoidable
- Grattan Institute
Marion
Terrill
August 11, 2021
150.
Labor’s West Gate Tunnel chaos continues with latest blowout
- Vic Liberal Party -
3 May 2022
151.
Gloomiest outlook yet: Economy on knife-edge and facing consumer
recession, says Deloitte - SMH -
Shane
Wright
April 17, 2023
152.
Barnaby Joyce's inland rail revenues won't cover capital cost, ARTC
CEO says - AFR - Jacob Greber 20 Feb 2018
153.
Critical section of Inland Rail link in limbo amid cost blowout
– SMH -
Mike
Foley -
April 6, 2023
154.
ICAC finds pork barrelling could be corrupt, recommends grant
funding guidelines be subject to statutory regulation .
155.
Costs blow out on Coalition parking projects funded without full
scoping -
SMH -
Farrah
Tomazin
July 1, 2021
156.
New politics Preventing pork-barrelling - Grattan institute
- Aug 2022 - Danielle Wood, Kate Griffiths, and Anika Stobart
157.
Roads to riches: better transport investment
-
Grattan Institute -
Marion
Terrill
-
2016
158.
Deliberately not paying superannuation is 'wage theft' and the
government is cracking down on it - ABC News - Nassim
Khadem
159.
Government to crack down on NDIS provider
fraud amid warning scheme will soon cost $50bn annually
-
Daniel Hurst
Tue 25 Oct 2022
160.
Pork barrelling can constitute corrupt conduct and could lead to
criminal charges, ICAC says
– The Guardian -
Anne Davies
1 Aug 2022
161.
New politics - Depoliticising Taxpayer Funded Advertising -
Grattan Institute - Danielle Wood, Anika Stobart and Kate
Griffith - Oct 2022
162.
Back in black? A menu of measures to repair the budget
- Grattan Institute
- Danielle Wood, Kate Griffiths, Iris Chan
- April 2023
163.
A battle to provide suburban railway station car parks has left
taxpayers with a $660 million bill and precious little extra parking
- SMH - Shane Wright - 3 July 2021
164.
Factsheet: Pork Barrelling -
The
Institute
of
Internal
Auditors
-
Australia
- 2018
165.
$252 million fund designed to win seats and punish councils, inquiry
finds -
SMH - Angus Thompson - 30 March 2021
166.
Multibillion-dollar federal fund didn’t award money on merit, audit
finds
- The Age - Tina Jacks -
28 June 2021
167.
What is the Bridget McKenzie scandal about?
Bridget McKenzie might have to quit federal cabinet and her deputy
leadership of the Nationals over her handling of a sports grants
program.
168.
The Regulation of Pork Barrelling in Australia - Susanna
Connolly - BA/LLB (Hons), TC Beirne School of Law, University of
Queensland
169.
Car park scheme signed off without any promise of extra spaces
– SMH -
Shane
Wright -
July 4, 2021
170.
Tackling Fraud and Preventing Government Waste Volume 708:
debated in Scotland Parliament on Tuesday, 1 February 2022 - Rachel
Reeves (Leeds West) (Labor)
171.
State debts growing faster than federal as infrastructure pipeline
extends
- SMH -
Shane
Wright and Rachel
Clun
February 27, 2023
172.
What’s happened to Albanese’s infrastructure agenda?
SMH -
Anthony
Galloway -
May 14, 2023
173.
NSW Treasurer hands down economic statement ahead of September
Budget -
"
.... and only direct funding to programs that work"
174.
NSW’s new intercity train fleet delayed until 2024 as rail chief
departs -
SMH - Matt
O'Sullivan June
21, 2023
175.
Secret report reveals $1 billion-plus cost blowout in bungled NSW
trains project
SMH -
Matt O'Sullivan
February
6, 2023
"... the government agency’s inability to adequately scope
the new train fleet before going to tender ."
176.
Kudos to Journos who exposed Berejiklian’s
misdeeds - SMH -
July 2, 2023
177.
To halt the democratic rot, stop the political rorts
- SMH -
Peter Hartcher
July 1, 2023
178.
Labor to rebuild a ‘seriously eroded’ Australian Public Service:
Gallagher -
179.
How the big four accounting firms infiltrated governments, earning
more than $10b over a decade while taxpayers are in the dark
- ABCNews -
Adele Ferguson - 17 July 2023
180.
East West Link: Cost of scrapping project more than $1.1 billion,
auditor-general says - ABC
News -
Jean Edwards -
9
Dec 2015
180.
Dispute over rail entity dents trust between NSW Treasury and
watchdog: report - SMH -
Matt O'Sullivan - 28 July 2022
183.
Billions wasted on infrastructure projects from bad planning,
bureaucracy - ABC News - 8 Feb 2017
184.
Here’s
a simple way to stop governments giving jobs to mates
185.
The big four are on the nose, but the stench is coming from
elsewhere -
SMH -
Parnell Palme McGuinness -
Columnist and communications adviser -
July 23,
2023
186. Deloitte refuses to answer questions at a Senate Committee hearing about misuse
of government information
188.
Investing in the APS to rebuild capability and streamline efficiency
-
Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet - 9 May 2023 - Senator
Katy Gallagher, Minister for Finance
189
Tens of billions of regional funds at risk in search for budget cuts
- Katina Curtis and Shane Wright - September 11, 2022
190. Taxes
up, debt rising: Victoria’s finances are teetering above an abyss
191.
NSW deficit to blow out to $2b: Treasury - Financial Review
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192.
NSW budget deficit more than triples to $11.3 billion - ABC
News -
Tim Swanston - Tues
21 Jun 2022
193.
Melbourne's Metro Rail Tunnel
budget blows out by $837 million, with state government blaming
global factors - ABC News - 26 Sept
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