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Source: Courier Mail; 11 September 2011
THE State Government has spent tens of thousands of dollars moving a controversial piece of artwork around Ipswich Courthouse after it was criticised by the public.
Proving one person's trash is another's treasure, the artwork named Interlocutor, made up of "found objects", originally cost taxpayers $120,000.
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The Bligh Labor Government's health IT bungling has spread from payroll to patients and could cost another half a billion dollars to fix, a secret Queensland Health 'risk report card' obtained by the State Opposition reveals.
In State Parliament today, the LNP tabled a leaked extract from Queensland Health's ICT Portfolio Plan 2011 – 15 which identified IT "risks" resulting in "major" to "extreme" consequences for patients and the State Government.
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Source: Courier Mail, 7 September 2011
THE numbers are so big it is often hard to fully appreciate the real impact of government waste and incompetence. The State Government's $200 million repair bill for its flawed Queensland Health payroll system was jaw-dropping in its own right. But it is only later, as we discover, case by case, examples of important public health activities being hampered by lack of funds, or lack of attention, that the true cost of such bureaucratic bumbling becomes apparent.
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Labor’s decision to proceed with a faulty multi-million dollar payroll system, despite IT experts warning of a ‘catastrophic’ failure, was yet another example of Bligh Government waste, the State Opposition said today.
Shadow Minister for Waste Fiona Simpson said Labor had again been exposed as incompetent economic managers. Labor doesn’t plan and they don’t deliver.
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