$110 million spent against Treasury advice
Months ago, WasteWatch brought you news of two Queensland racetracks, one in Toowoomba, one in Mackay, which cost the Queensland taxpayer over $25 million.The racetrack at Toowoomba was one of 37...
View ArticleNew AIS logo costs $500,000
Government expenditure on Australian sport is a familiar demon for WasteWatch.This latest example of sports waste almost outdoes all the others though.It turns out the Australian Institute of Sport has...
View ArticleThe party’s over
So the party’s over, it’s time to call it a day, and, as Nat King Cole sang, now the piper must be paid.Or is that the halfpiper?Australia’s Winter Olympic team are headed home, having won three medals...
View ArticleA pool of money
Kevin-747 certainly did have a taste for spending taxpayer money on sport in Australia.Remember the $166,000 on the arenacross track down in Victoria?Or the $800,000 to an AFL club in north Brisbane?Or...
View ArticleSporty pork in Victoria
The Napthine government is in a spot of bother down in Victoria.Since the resignation of Geoff Shaw, they are a minority government in a deteriorating position in the opinion polls, and they are...
View ArticleThe Commonwealth Games frenzy begins
The Gold Coast still has three years before it hosts the Commonwealth Games, but already the dollars, and the problems, are flowing.It’s estimated that the Games will cost the Queensland taxpayer at...
View ArticleTaxpayer off the hook after live baiting scandal
It was almost a St Valentine’s Day Massacre.Within days of the damning Four Corners report into live baiting across the greyhound industry, aired on 16 February, the entire board of Greyhound Racing...
View ArticleGrommets at DFAT
We all know Prime Minister Tony Abbott is a keen surfer.Less well-known is the fact that Foreign Affairs Minister, Julie Bishop, must also be a fan.WasteWatch can’t think of any other explanation for...
View ArticleUnplayable
What’s the first thing that would pop into your head if WasteWatch said: “opera”?Pavarotti?Verdi?Shane Warne?See, back in 2008, a marvellous musical based on Shane Warne’s life debuted in Melbourne.It...
View ArticleThe grommets are taking over
The grommets are taking over!WasteWatch recently brought to your attention the support given to the ‘emerging Australia-China surfing industry’ by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.It turns...
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