$7.4 million racing pork barrel
Yesterday, Wastewatch posted about the $19 million spent on a race track in Toowoomba – $12 million to lay the artificial turf and another $7 million to rip it up and replace it with the natural...
View ArticleDRALGAS helps Collingwood FC redefine ‘philanthropy’
Maybe you’re an Aussie Rules fan who hates the Pies; maybe you live outside Victoria and don’t think Aussie Rules even deserves to be called a sport.Either way, you’re paying. Your money is going...
View ArticleGolf watch
Three months ago, WasteWatch brought you the news that $47 000 of your money was spent at Christmas Island Golf Club.It seems the Federal Government’s golf fascination has grown.According to the...
View ArticleAustralia’s most pressing infrastructure problem?
Surely it’s one of Australia’s most pressing infrastructure problems.Facing a budget black hole, with the 2012-13 deficit projected to be somewhere in the vicinity of $25 billion, and the 2013-24...
View ArticleGrandstanding in marginal seats
It would be odd indeed if the deposition of a Victorian Prime Minister had led to an AFL cartel taking over the Labor Government. But it seems increasingly likely.Recently, the Rudd Government...
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Evel Knievel makes an election appearance
Can you see the similarities between Evel Knievel and Kevin Rudd?No, neither can WasteWatch.But that hasn’t stopped the Rudd Government from giving $166,000 of your money to the Robinvale &...
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Kevin’s $15 million sports fascination
Kevin Rudd seems to have a fascination with sport this election. Perhaps it is just insecurity. His chin-up routine does need some work, and he has recently copped some flak on the campaign trail for...
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Multiculturalism gone mad
Governments enjoy giving your money to sponsor events that have catchy words like ‘social cohesion’, or ‘diversity’, or ‘harmony’ in their title.WasteWatch has already brought you the story of the $50...
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Freerunning? Or free spending?
Do you consider yourself a traceur or traceuse?Have you heard of David Belle or Sebastien Foucan?Do you believe that the urban environment needs to be reclaimed by humanity through natural...
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$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 Article$19 million for racetrack (Wastetrack?)
Sydneysiders will remember that the Oxford Street Rainbow Crossing, painted on in time for this year’s Mardi Gras festival cost $110,000 to lay down, only to be ripped up just weeks later for another...
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New 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...
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The 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...
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A 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...
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Sporty 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...
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The 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...
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Taxpayer 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...
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Grommets 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...
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Unplayable
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...
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The 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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