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What is Peter Malinauskas and his Labor Government really costing you?

Here is what they are spending on advertising

2022 onwards

$0

The proportion of our State’s $44 billion net debt

Source: The Advertiser

$18,500

per person

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    • A plan but no prosperity.

      A year on from its costly launch, the Malinauskas Government’s State Prosperity Project has failed to deliver on its promise to “unlock a new kind of power” – leaving South Australians facing unprecedented challenges. Peter Malinauskas and his team spent… more ›

    • Data shows 118 ‘excess employees’ worked in the public sector last financial year – the highest annual figure in a decade.

      From The Advertiser 12/01/25 SA taxpayers are shelling out millions of dollars for public servants to sit in a government workforce “waiting lounge”, an official report reveals. South Australian taxpayers are shelling out millions of dollars for more public servants… more ›

    • Labor’s Utopia Episode 2: Nearly half a million dollars wasted

      The startling cost of a non-physical shifting of a government agency out of one department, and then back again, has today been revealed at almost half a million dollars. The chair of the Budget and Finance Committee, Heidi Girolamo, said… more ›

    • Questions over Party Pete’s priorities.

      The Leader of the Opposition, Vincent Tarzia has joined Shadow Minister for Energy and Net Zero, Stephen Patterson in reiterating that the Premier’s focus should be on lowering South Australians’ power bills during this cost of living crisis. Peter Malinauskas… more ›

    • Keeping watch on Government waste.

      From soft toys to advertising scandals and millions of dollars in ministerial travel – Labor’s waste of taxpayer money knows no bounds as South Australians contend with a cost-of-living crisis.Today the Liberal Opposition launches “Waste Watch” a new initiative to… more ›

    • Swing and a miss – Labor’s ‘mulligan’ leaves fees in the rough.

      South Australian Treasurer Stephen Mullighan has dismissed Opposition Leader Vincent Tarzia’s call for the Government to provide cost of living relief by freezing State Government fees and charges – suggesting that such a measure would not deliver meaningful relief to… more ›

    • Labor’s hydrogen hopes and dreams revealed as just another hydrogen hoax. 

       Peter Malinauskas’ hydrogen hopes and dreams are in tatters today, as a new State Government tender reveals the truth about his hydrogen hoax.  The Office of Hydrogen Power has put out a tender asking for private sector support to provide… more ›

    • ‘A waste’: New $44m SA curriculum blasted.

      From The Advertiser 8/10/24 South Australia is spending $44m to adapt the national school curriculum for our state – and a former education minister says it’s a waste of money. South Australia should be putting resources towards implementing the new… more ›

    • Skills SA sent to Education Department then back again for more than $360,000.

      From The Advertiser 6/10/24 Taxpayers paying to shift a government agency in, out and back into a department has been likened to the comedy show Utopia. Taxpayers paid more than $360,000 to move a government agency from one department to… more ›

    • Labor gambling on hydrogen.

      Premier Peter Malinauskas is being challenged over whether hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars will be squandered on “a hydrogen vanity project” at Whyalla after major energy firms abandoned the technology. Speaking during a visit to Whyalla on Friday, Opposition… more ›