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2009-08-11

Beyond spins: where is Rudd government's accountability?

Comments on Jack the Insider “Aboriginal housing Labor’s greatest shame”, 10/08/2009, http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/jacktheinsider/index.php/theaustralian/comments/aboriginal_housing_labors_greatest_shame/

This is yet another example of the Rudd government’s inability to get policy implementation right. After 18 months and with $672 million planned funding, there is no single house built, yet an estimated $50 million of filthy lucre has or will be sucked down by the Northern Territory bureaucracy. Further even the federal minister for Indigenous people has admitted that more than $100 million (probably $150 or $160 million from my memory) of that funding will not spent on real buildings but in administrations and other processes.

This also shows that the Rudd government has no real and hard accountability to the Australian people and Australian taxpayers for their money through their hard work. Of course, an ineffective and ineffectual federal opposition also provided a fertile ground for the prevalence of such a lack of accountability. They are not good enough and must change or be changed.

It is good that the government has taken some social initiatives with good intentions. But it is an entirely different matter if those good intentions cannot be translated into the intended outcomes.

Mr Rudd and its government must take a hard look at and think about its policy implementations after nearly two years in office and make urgent changes to make its policy effective, and to be really accountable to the Australian people and taxpayers. The time is overdue and they need to do that soon. Billions and billions are at stake, Mr Rudd. Do it and do it now.

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