QLD flood levy

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Remember the ALP diving for our wallets because "Australians won't mind helping out fellow Aussies"?

Here's the greedy fucking googly eyed dickhead treasurer trying to prop up his wasteful spending


TREASURER Wayne Swan is refusing to pay more than $700 million in flood recovery money owed to Queensland, the state government says.
Queensland Treasurer Tim Nicholls says under a joint agreement, the federal government said it would reimburse the state for money spent on disaster relief and recovery arrangements.

Mr Nicholls says the state spent $725 million on personal assistance and grants to local governments to rebuild damaged infrastructure.

It now wants the money from the Commonwealth.

"Wayne Swan is refusing to pay Queenslanders this money even though it's allocated in his forward estimates," Mr Nicholls told state parliament on Thursday.

He says he has been negotiating with the federal government for three months to resolve the issue.

"Yesterday we were bluntly told by the federal treasury they will not be paying the $725 million," Mr Nicholls said.

"This is money that the federal government imposed a levy on every single Australian to pay the bill.
"This is not their money. They are transferring it to their bottom line."

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Perhaps this is worthy of being placed in my 100 to 1 Labor pledge thread.

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A spokesman for Mr Swan told AAP it was not the federal treasurer who was holding up the process.

He said the auditor-general had refused to support Mr Nicholls' claims that the money was actually spent on reconstruction.

"The ball is well and truly in Mr Nicholls' court to resolve this issue."

Mr Swan said the Commonwealth was investing more than $9 billion in Queensland for reconstruction following a series of natural disasters between 2010 to 2012, with more than $4 billion in advance payments already made to kick-start reconstruction.

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Oh, so that came from Swans office?

Well, you can trust him not to tell porkies