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September 21st, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
JULIA Gillard has set up more than one new government review a week since assuming power.
This will have her challenging Kevin Rudd’s title as king of the committee.
Her government has launched more than 80 reviews and inquiries since she replaced Mr Rudd as Prime Minister in June last year, despite her promise to make 2011 “a year of delivery”.
The reviews have pushed out the timeline for many government decisions until late this year or beyond, while increasing the expense of the decision-making process.
Canberra’s “convergence” review into the media, for example, has a $3.1 million price tag, while another $1.2m will be spent examining commonwealth funding for local government and $1m rethinking GST allocations to the states.
The Coalition put the Rudd government’s tally of new inquiries, summits, agencies and positions at more than 100 in its first six months in office.
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Opposition Senate leader Eric Abetz said Ms Gillard was now not far behind, with Labor yet to change its culture under her prime ministership.
“Julia Gillard had to take over from Mr Rudd because the government had ‘lost its way’,” he said.
“With all these reviews, it’s quite clear that they’ve lost their map and compass as well.”
Ms Gillard yesterday declined to comment on the number of reviews commissioned on her watch.
Under Mr Rudd, the inquiries tended to be lengthy, wide-ranging and ambitious, from his “root and branch” review of taxation and the health and hospital system to the Garnaut climate- change review and new defence white paper.
By comparison, Ms Gillard’s have been shorter and more targeted.
Her Don Argus-led review of the mining tax, for example, facilitated a policy U-turn on her predecessor’s resource super-profits tax, with her government embracing all of its 98 recommendations to implement its replacement mineral resources rent tax.
But other reviews have run late, are yet to see the light of day, or have been overtaken by events.
The government, for example, imposed and then lifted a ban on live cattle exports to Indonesia before its independent review into the global trade was due last month, with the report still under wraps.
The multiple reviews commissioned in the wake of this year’s Skype sex scandal are also yet to be released, despite the original July reporting deadlines for four of the seven inquiries.
The government has drawn the Productivity Commission and House of Representatives into its review web, tasking the bodies to collectively conduct at least 10 of its policy inquiries.
The Australian‘s tally of government reviews excludes policy development by new forums and bodies such as the Mental Health Commission, National Advisory Council on Dental Health, Advisory Panel on the Economic Potential of Senior Australians, Resources Advisory Council, and the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee and their business and non-government roundtables.
Ms Gillard’s promise of a more consultative approach has come at a cost, with next month’s Tax Forum – held a day before her new Jobs Forum – costing $900,000.
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