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dc.contributor.authorWanna, John
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:48:17Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:48:17Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2011-01-25T02:23:22Z
dc.identifier.issn00049522
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8497.2010.01554.x
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/35740
dc.description.abstractPrime Minister Kevin Rudd began the period under intense pressure from the Godwin Grech “Oz-Car” fake email scandal and ended it in a commanding position facing a new, almost accidental, opposition leader, Tony Abbott. Polls continued to favour the Labor government convincingly, despite the fact that the Rudd government was unable to hammer out an agreement on a global carbon reduction scheme at the Copenhagen conference in December. Throughout much of the period, the merits and wisdom (or otherwise) of the government’s economic stimulus package were vehemently debated by politicians and pundits, especially in relation to the amounts of additional spending involved and the escalating public debt levels. In addition, a number of problems began to emerge with Commonwealth programs associated with these stimulus measures, such as the home insulation program and the “building an educational revolution” program designed to give schools additional facilities. The Auditor-General’s report into the Oz-Car affair was tabled in August 2009 (ANAO Report No 1, 2009-10). The Auditor-General had used his statutory powers to interview both the Prime Minister and Treasurer, and their staff in their private offices (as well as relevant departmental officials). Both ministers and their staff were exonerated of any wrongdoing, but the Treasury official responsible for the program, Godwin Grech, was found to have acted inappropriately and improperly. The Auditor-General also identified a number of shortcomings in Treasury’s implementation phase of the policy. The report effectively ended the matter for the government, while still raising issues of how the Opposition conducted itself during the affair.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom275
dc.relation.ispartofpageto327
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian Journal of Politics and History
dc.relation.ispartofvolume56
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and administration
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAustralian government and politics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4407
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440801
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4303
dc.titlePolitical Chronicles: Commonwealth of Australia July to December 2009
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, School of Government and International Relations
gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorWanna, John


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