Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed reports her government has spent $15 billion to keep the Greens and the independents happy.
The report in The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday said the government had spent $65 for every Australian to essentially keep her minority government in office.
Ms Gillard said the report was simply wrong and included many of Labor’s election promises.
“They don’t call it the silly season for nothing,” she told reporters in Adelaide.
“The report is wrong in the details that I’ve just described.”
The Telegraph said the government’s spending extended beyond deals struck after the election, with Labor forced to extinguish political spot fires and buy votes for controversial policies such as the carbon and mining taxes.
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