Bernard Robertson-Dunn contributed:
> Finance has lost the plot
> Canberra Times
> 3 August 2001
> http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=your%20say&subclass=general&category=editorial%20opinion&story_id=73277
>
> Wittingly or unwittingly, the Minister for Finance and Administration, John
> Fahey, and, separately, his department, have put their fingers on the
> source of what is beginning to look a formidable indictment of political
> and managerial incompetence in Government. Faced with a devastating
> Auditor-General's report which shows that an ideologically driven decision
> to sell much of the Commonwealth's office property has been a financial
> disaster which will in time cost the Commonwealth dearly, the department
> says that its job was to implement Government policy, not to protect the
> overall interests of the Commonwealth. The minister responds by accusing
> the auditor of exceeding his brief: selling the property was a policy
> decision, and it was no part of the auditor's role to second-guess policy.
[SNIP]
Like many Aussies, it's not that I disklike paying taxes. What really bothers me
is what these buffoons do with our money.
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