We have been on the qld government panel to supply them with IT labour for the past 2 years and they didn't even have a single job being hired that went outside of their normal process. Every time you speak to govt departments up there you can't help but to see they are broke and have no budget for anything. It got so bad that they were asking us to pay them in order to remain a supplier to them. We eventually wrote to them and told them that there is really no point in having an accredited supplier while they dont have any money to spend.
It's beyond belief that the Bligh government was able to be so wasteful with all of the benefits of the resources boom and be the 1st state to lose the international AAA credit rating. People hated Newman (me too) but they had nothing to work with. Inheriting the Health payroll debacle that was originally costed at about $18M but will end up costing something like $1.4 Billion for example. How the hell does that happen without affecting infrastructure and frontline services. Which once you're in the hole, combined with resources going down rolls into jobs and company investment not happening.
And don't even get me started on the tunnels that no one uses
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