Re: Feds have not spent money extracted from motorists.

["dartmouth" <DARTMOUTH@ausisp.com>]

Also the Auditor Generals Dept has been decimated over the years.
Cheers
Rod Gayford

"David Bennetts" <davibenn@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Tell" <telljb@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> > It had to happen, ...after all, this an election year.
> >
> > Any guesses that a "labor" section of the Federal
> > Public Service helped to drop this one on the agenda.
> > We now find, thanks to a slack-arse Federal Auditor
> > General Department, that BILLIONS of dollars extracted
> > from motorists under an ACT OF PARLIAMENT has not been
> > allocated to roads.
> >
> You are sheeting blame in entirely the wrong area, it's only thanks to the
> Auditor General's Department that this was picked up.  The Auditor General
> is not responsible for the actions of the Departments, it's his function
to
> report on the compliance and efficiency of government programs.  He has
> limited resources to do this, so has a rolling program to cover all
> Departments - it may be years before the AG covers certain areas.  Don't
> shoot the messenger!
>
> The slack arses, as you put it, are in the Department of Transport, and
the
> buck stops with the Transport Minister.  He has had his butt kicked hard
by
> the PM, deservedly so.
>
> Regards
>
> David Bennetts
> Bowral
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