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<h1>The Travels of the <br> Techno-Freedom-Fighter</h1>

The Travels of the
Techno-Freedom-Fighter

Headlong into the abyss
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With the current financial crisis, Labor and Liberal have shown that they are completely unable to adapt to changing circumstances as they continue to make multi-million dollar promises of how they will spend taxpayers money. Although we are fairly well protected in Australia, there could well be impacts for the ACT's budget. At the very least, we are entitled to know from the major parties how they intend to manage the uncertainty, and what promises they will break first. I advocate strongly for responsible financial management: putting the essentials first. I really do believe there should be some risk analysis to indicate the possible impact of a global financial crisis on the ACT's economic and financial sustainability. It's time for both Labor and Liberal to take a step back from their historical tendencies towards a frivolous wasting of ACT taxpayers money, The Liberals managed to overspend millions on a stadium, with painted green grass, and a now- defunct car race. And their management of public housing in the late 1990s is almost certainly at least partly responsible for the housing crisis. Labor's record is no more impressive, with Rhodium, Firelink, bushfire appeals and busways, issues around land supply and planning, the data centre debacle, and the efforts to maintain the secrecy around school closures as notches on its own belt of mismanagement. The election spending spree is now at more than $800 million. While some promises are undoubtedly more deserving than others, now is a time in which we should be doing a very careful evaluation of exactly what should be spent as financial uncertainty looms. Money wasted in one area leads to a government crying that it is too poor to spend money on people's needs. The Community Alliance has formed to represent people, not an ideology, and we will do our best to make sure their voices are heard in a new Assembly.

October 1, 2008 | 4:56 PM Comments  0 comments

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