Taking a browse through Budget Paper 2 we find:
For the Hospital:
The Government will contribute $5.0 million to the Australian Capital Territory in 2014-15 towards the development of a dedicated service for children within the Emergency Department of the Canberra Hospital. This will help streamline and better coordinate paediatric emergency and inpatient services for around 15,000 children per year.
The ACT Government will contribute the remaining establishment costs and fund the recurrent resourcing requirements for this initiative.
Chump change for a footpath up to Parliament House:
The Government will provide $0.1 million in 2012-13 to the ACT Government, as a contribution toward the cost of constructing the Parliament House Walk between the Civic Centre and Parliament House in Canberra.
The cost of this measure will be met by redirecting funding from the Parliament House Walk — feasibility study measure announced in the 2012-13 Budget.
And that’s it.
The price of safe Labor seats. Enjoy your public service savings!
Anything take your notice dear reader?
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pepmeup said :
They might do, but at the same time, Canberra isn’t conservative on many social matters and thats the biggest issue. Financially many of the coalition policies suit Canberrans better, but he conservative social policies of the coalition don’t.
And lets face it, how many people blindly voted liberal because they were handing out tax cuts?
Anything you can accuse one side of politics of is rarely confined to just that side of Politics.
slashdot said :
Reasonably plucky in his Press Club appearance this afternoon, but I don’t think the audience is buying it – too much baggage. Riley had fun.
symba said :
Yeah…….oh except for those fat cats working in Fyshwick. It’s about time all those shop owners, sales people, mechanics, warehouse workers, prostitutes and car salesmen started paying for parking as well……..
johnboy said :
Huzzah! – they might like to commission someone in New York to compose a suitable musical tribute to celebrate this joyous event.
Martlark said :
You’d better get yourself an e-tag!
I noticed there was funding for on ramp metering of the T parkway. What does that mean?
johnboy said :
Just what I always wanted.
ANU is celebrating funding for a tax studies institute.
vet111 said :
Norfolk is a financial basket case. Australia’s tightened it’s standards for marine protection. What was dodgy Norfolk behaviour (burning mixed waste in an open pile and then bulldozing it off a cliff into the ocean) has become basically illegal. Fixing that takes money. There is no proper jetty/cargo pier at Norfolk for containerised movements, including of wastes. Whatever waste fix they’ll need to stop ocean dumping is going to have a capital cost and the Islanders can’t pay. So, a draw on the budget is pretty much the only option if you want to fix the problems.
Ben_Dover said :
“When a man is talking, women are supposed to listen.”
vet111 said :
East coast offshore refugee processing centre, paid for with reallocated foreign aid funds?
Anyone want to quote Mr J Lydon esq.?
pepmeup said :
I don’t think public servants blindly vote labor… they are more likely to look at the policies and vote for which ever has the best policies for Australia as a whole. As individuals by wealth status they would fit into more of the ‘blindly’ voting for liberals. Usually change of government means loss of public service jobs regardless of labor/liberal.
And doesn’t the public service not make up enough of Canberra that if non public service voted liberal Canberra would become Liberal?
So it’s not really fair to say that public servants vote Labor blindly I think they are more accustomed to looking at what is best for people accross Australia and then vote accordingly regardless of their personal situation.
Not Canberra, but no. 4 on this list caught my attention:
http://www.news.com.au/money/federal-budget/things-you-wont-believe-are-in-federal-budget-2013/story-fn84fgcm-1226642450043#ixzz2TJTDLcCX
“No. 4. $5.4m for the Norfolk Island Reform Package. Ever been to Norfolk Island? Their garbage disposal system consists of throwing household waste off a cliff into the sea. Seriously, it may be beyond reform.”
For a place that doesn’t pay tax, in these economic times it’s difficult to justify even throwing them chump change.
Discuss.
Hosinator said :
Canberra is a Labor town. It’s also one of the biggest lefty strongholds in the country.
Hosinator said :
It would be much better to be marginal, but too many public servants will blindly vote labor every election
Paid parking in the Triangle, about time… the rest of Canberra has had paid parking for ages.
”The price of safe Labor seats. Enjoy your public service savings!”
Why is Canberra a safe Labour seat?
Wouldn’t it be better if we were a swing seat and as a result rewarded with pork barrelling.
HiddenDragon said :
He is an absolute muppet. He deserves to be treated with contempt
magiccar9 said :
+1 – it was like a half hour condolence motion – even with the sound down (a very tempting option) the looks on the faces behind him would have given the same impression. In the post-speech interview, Leigh Sales treated him with the same contempt as Oakes the other day – all rather sad.