Tag: Steve Marshall

Feb 22

Myths and Mysteries In The State Mid Year Budget Update – Part 3

So, on these two items alone, compared with 2010 by 2016 there will be a reduction of around $1.75b, representing a massive 10% of the State Government budget. That is, while Weatherill talks of not withdrawing, in truth he and his Government are proposing shrinking what it spends out in the community by 10%. This is very likely the greatest contraction (‘withdrawal’) of government in the nation’s history!

Feb 03

Myths and Mysteries In The State Mid Year Budget Update – Part 2

Things like the desalination plant and the Adelaide Oval redevelopment are just two examples of uneconomic waste that mean that all the debt accrued over the six year period from the GFC to the end of next financial year has and will have been totally avoidable.