Why does Brad Orgill have a media adviser?
13 May 2010
Media release Reports that the man charged with investigating waste in the School Hall program held a press conference at a school with no complaints suggests like everything else initiated by the Rudd Government, this taskforce is all spin, no substance, Christopher Pyne, Shadow Minister for Education said today.
"This seems to be another in a series of press stops at schools for the taskforce head; Mr Orgill, reportedly trailed by his media adviser, performing a public relations exercise rather than an investigation," Mr Pyne said.
"Instead of a media adviser Mr Orgill needs a crack team of investigators, he needs access to every contract of every school in the country, and he needs forensic accountants to examine them," he said.
The taskforce has been charged to uncover the widely reported systemic rorting, price gouging, waste and mismanagement in the school hall rip-off, not to trip over television cables at schools.
The recent report by the auditor-general showed that the complaints compiled by the Department of Education were not an accurate measurement of what is actually occurring on the ground, yet this is the focus of Mr Orgill's investigation.
"If the Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, wanted to have a pretend investigation then surely she could have hired the cast of 'CSI' for $14 million," Mr Pyne said.
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