“I am furious! We’ve been ripped off!”
raged an irate Anna Bligh, clearly angered by the syphoning off of millions of
dollars of taxpayers’ money by one of her own public servants. Now she knows
how the rest of us feel.
The flamboyant, trilby-wearing Hohepa
Morehu-Barlow may have helped himself to sports cars, waterfront homes, fancy
artworks, a perfume shop and race-horses all on the public purse, but even so
his lavish spending spree pales into insignificance when compared with the
wasteful and excessive splurging of public funds by another couple of
profligate Queenslanders.
Over the past four years messrs Rudd and Swan
have squandered our hard-earned readies on a shopping list that would take even
Morehu-Barlow’s perfumed breath away. Adding up the reckless expenditure on
such goodies as the un-commercial NBN, a carbon tax that won’t stop climate
change, school halls for schools that are now being closed, advertising
campaigns for health reforms that have now been dumped, a disastrous boat
people policy that will cost the taxpayer untold sums in welfare and policing
as asylum seekers are sent unprocessed into the community, all the legal and
other costs associated with the failed Malaysian Solution, the increased
foreign aid granted for the sole purpose of currying favour with the UN, the
utterly pointless millions handed out willy nilly to African dictatorships to
line their pockets and, er, ‘tackle climate change’, the lost productivity
caused by increased union demands and strike activity, the cancelled solar
panel rebates, pink batts, set top boxes and countless other
ideologically-based and ill-thought out commitments is a depressing activity
that sees the Australian tax-payer dudded to the tune of over a hundred million
dollars a day.
Anna Bligh intends to recover “every last
cent” of Morehu-Barlow’s “rip-off.” Alas, the Australian taxpayer will have no
such luck.
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