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 [...]

John Brumby has broken his promise to be open and accountable to Victorians and breached his own laws by keeping secret major government contracts worth $3 billion. Shadow Minister for Finance Robert Clark said today the Victorian Auditor-General has also found the Brumby Government has wrongly removed key data from published contracts and failed to [...]

Victoria’s Auditor-General has today blasted John Brumby and his government for their failure to properly account for whether $31 billion of taxpayers’ funds have been spent effectively. “Victorians know that under John Brumby, accountability in Victoria has become a dirty word,” Shadow Minister for Finance, Robert Clark said today. “This report shows that Labor cannot [...]