Archive for March 21st, 2007

An open cheque book to Fulton Hogan

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Jeanette released yesterday an OIA that shows that the Government has secretly adopted a new method of funding roads, a method which is probably not legal and is biased in favour of new state highways. They used this method with their extra $1.5 billion road spendup in the last budget.
The new method is that Transit […]

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72 honest mistakes

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

John Howard has lost another Minister, Santo Santoro, after it was revealed that Santoro had made 72 share trades over an 18 month period that he had failed to declare in his list of pecuniary interests. At least four of the share trades appear to involve a conflict of interest with his role as Minister […]

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