April 30, 2020

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Opinion Articles

Government spends $100m for nothing in Health

So far the Federal Government is doing the heavy lifting on carrying the community through the corona virus having announced over $200 billion in funding in the last four weeks. But notice how quiet the retired and then unretired state treasurer has been. No big cash splash from him, obviously he is desperately hanging onto his budgeted surplus no doubt hoping to keep the ALPs election strategy alive of being seen as the men in

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Royalties for Regions and the Missing Billions

If you ever wonder what happened to the billion dollar per year Royalties for Regions fund set up by Brendon Grylls and the state National Party, then you are not alone. The answer is; it has become the lead actor in a real-life version of a Monty Python skit – the one where they refuse to admit that the parrot (named R for R) is dead. While the money is real, with $829m allocated in

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