Spending on Ministerial staff and credit cards has exploded at the same time the Liberal Government is sending the state into debt and taking the axe to the public service.
The Premier has no coherent explanation for the bloated spending across Ministerial offices.
Ministerial staffing has blown out by 27.6 per cent in three years.
The Government Media Unit has grown by 50 per cent in the same period.
In the year to March, $42,436.99 had been racked up on credit cards by Ministerial staff.
In a single year, the Chief of Staff to Guy Barnett spent $14,846.64 on the credit card.
Labor Leader Rebecca White said the level of government waste was appalling.
“The Liberals claim to be responsible financial managers and yet they are spending like drunken sailors and have plunged Tasmania into $1.1 billion in net debt,” Ms White said.
“The axe is hanging over the jobs of teachers, nurses and park rangers at the same time that Ministerial staff numbers have ballooned.
“The priorities of this Minority Liberal Government are all wrong.”
Rebecca White MP
Labor Leader
