HOWARD SATTLER: On this ‘Mad as Hell’ Monday, this will get you mad, too. Taxpayers are now paying out, or have paid out, more than $3.4 million in travel costs to fly insulation safety inspectors around Australia to check on faulty or dodgy insulation installations under the Federal Government’s failed $2,500 million that’s…
DetailsLUKE GRANT: Taxpayers are footing a multi-million dollar travel bill as part of Labor’s clean up of its disastrous $2.5 billion Home Insulation Program or ‘Pink Batts’ scheme, linked to at least four deaths and more than 200 house fires. This information has come to hand, I suspect in Senate Estimates, by Senator Simon…
DetailsMICHAEL SMYTH: Well, a few months ago on this program we were speaking to our traffic guru Nick Green about the increasing delays being faced by Adelaide drivers and the frustration that it’s causing and he said if you think things are bad now, just wait until our train network gets busier more…
DetailsLEON BYNER: Well, the Price is Right… we’ll talk to Larry Emdur about what price we’re talking about but we really have to ask the same thing about this carbon tax because we now find that SA Water are going to have a tax liability of about $6.2 million. Now, this is pretty interesting…
DetailsSONYA FELDHOFF: If you live in a regional area, as you’d be aware, coming up in the next couple of years there is going to be a big switch to digital TV and we’re gearing up for that and many people are being helped out with that switch but there are concerns starting to…
DetailsSIMON ROYAL: Residents of the South Australian town of Truro are taking their fight over digital television to Canberra. They’re furious at the extra costs they’ll have to pay to install individual satellite dishes to receive the signal when it’s switched over. This, mind you, is for free-to-air TV the stuff you’re watching…
DetailsCHRIS UHLMANN: Today offered another insight into the dysfunction at the heart of the Gillard Government during its simmering leadership tensions. An Auditor-General’s report declared the flawed tender process for the overseas television service cast the Government in a poor light and raised questions about its fairness. The tender panel twice recommended Sky TV…
DetailsANDREW GREENE: Hello and welcome to Capital Hill. I’m Andrew Greene on a day of dramatic developments in two long-awaited investigations troubling the Gillard Government. First, this morning, the Commonwealth Auditor-General highlighted a series of flaws in the Government’s handling of the tender for the Australia Network contract. Then, hours later, Fair Work Australia…
DetailsMARK COLVIN: The Federal Opposition says a scathing audit report on the Australia Network tender process calls into question the future of the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy. The Auditor-General says the 13-month process to decide on an operator for the overseas television service was flawed and cast the Government in a poor light. The…
DetailsELEANOR HALL: The Auditor-General today flayed the Federal Government over its tender process for the Australia Network contract, pointing to several serious flaws in the process. The Auditor General’s report, which was released this morning, says the process cost the two tenderers the ABC and Sky News time and money. …
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