The Rudd Labor government is forking out nearly a million dollars a year on a small slice of Sydney CDB commercial real estate, just so officials from Anthony Albanese’s Major Cities Unit can have a workplace with Sydney Harbour views to impress the people they hope to deal with.
Department of Infrastructure officials today told a Senate Estimates hearing, the Major Cities Unit workplace needed to be at the top end of town, where the big investment dollars were.
Do these officials honestly want the Australian public to believe potential investors won’t deal with Australian Government if it doesn’t have swanky offices in the flash big building of a merchant bank that offers harbour views? Really!”
The Australian taxpayer is forking out $950,000 a year just so public servants can impress the socks off likely investors.
I wonder what value for money proposition for the taxpayer’s investment was presented to whoever signed off on the Major Cities Unit lease.
If the Rudd Labor Government was truly the economic conservative government they want taxpayers to believe they are, don’t you think they’d have gone for a more affordable option?
Let me think? Maybe one that presented well, wasn’t exorbitantly expensive and maybe didn’t have Harbour views? A location no less, that didn’t cost about as much as it costs to run the economy of a small European nation?
Rudd Labor could even have invested the savings from a more practical and affordable leasing arrangement into service delivery programs within Minister Albanese’s department.
Here we have yet another example of Labor waste of taxpayers dollars.
The Major Cities Unit over the top expenditure for CBD real estate is yet another example of Labor wasting taxpayers money.
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