Minister for Finance Robert Clark today announced the appointment of John McNeil to the Board of the Victorian Managed Insurance Authority (VMIA). “The VMIA is a statutory authority which provides insurance for state assets and risk management services to state departments and agencies,” Mr Clark said. “With over 30 years’ experience and a broad range [...]

The Victorian Coalition Government strongly supports the principle of gender pay equity. The Victorian Government is the only government to have set aside specific funding towards an outcome in the pay equity case currently before Fair Work Australia (FWA). In the 2011-12 Budget, the Victorian Government set aside $200 million over four years to fund [...]

Today in Federal Parliament, the Gillard Government tabled the Building and Construction industry Improvement (Transition to Fair Work) Bill 2011 which will abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC). The Victorian Coalition Government is strongly opposed to this Bill. Far from improving the building and construction industry, abolishing the ABCC will give a green [...]

The Victorian Coalition Government today released for public comment a draft of new industrial relations guidelines for Victorian Government building and construction work. Minister for Finance Robert Clark said the new guidelines will form part of the Victorian Code of Practice for the Building and Construction Industry and will replace the current industrial relations principles. [...]

Today’s Federal Court decisions imposing fines and legal costs of $560,000 on the CFMEU highlight the culture of intimidation and coercion that persist in parts of the building and construction industry. The court was scathing of the CFMEU in the two judgements it delivered. The behaviour of the CFMEU at the $300 million (Stage 1) [...]

Victorian Labor has declared that they will put Labor’s political interests ahead of Victorian families, Minister for Finance Robert Clark said today. Victoria has been singled out for an unprecedented $2.5 billion cut in GST revenue by the Commonwealth yet Victoria will not be represented at the Treasury Ministerial Council in Canberra next Thursday (7 [...]

The Victorian Liberal Nationals Coalition has called on the Treasurer John Lenders to agree to the Auditor-General conducting an independent review of both Labor and Coalition election policy costings. Shadow Treasurer Kim Wells has written to Mr Lenders repeating the challenge he gave to Mr Lenders on ABC’s Stateline program on Friday, to which the [...]

The Labor Party must abandon its current sham “independent” policy costings and back a truly independent Parliamentary Budget Office if it is to have any credibility on costings, Shadow Minister for Finance Robert Clark said today. “Victorians can have no confidence in Labor using the same costing processes that have already seen the cost of [...]

Victoria’s Auditor-General, Des Pearson, has expressed strong concern about threats from the Brumby Government to the independence of his office in legislation before the Parliament, which the government to date has refused to amend. Mr Pearson has also strongly criticised Brumby Government MPs on the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee (PAEC) for trying to gag [...]

Brumby Government MPs have used their numbers on an all-party parliamentary committee to gag the Auditor-General on threats to his independence. Labor has also tried to block the Auditor-General from telling the Parliament about his views on these threats by arrogantly claiming that for him to do so would be ‘questioning the merits of the [...]