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Usually towards the end of the sitting year, the government will release a bewildering number of annual reports at once, presumably so that journalists and other interested parties are rendered physically incapable of taking them all in.
“Dumping reports in an effort to prevent proper transparency and scrutiny of this bumbling, incompetent and wasteful government,” said the opposition leader, John Pesutto, of the tabling of 244 documents on Wednesday.
It caused the parliament’s website to temporarily crash, though the then premier, Daniel Andrews, denied it was a sneaky move, citing the fact the government had been in caretaker mode for several months.
Among the 244 documents tabled on Wednesday were 241 annual reports, covering a range of government agencies and departments – including emergency services, integrity bodies, hospitals, the justice system, the state’s cemeteries and zoos – and even the strawberry industry.
Not to mention the deficits racked up, the millions of dollars paid to consultants, the eye-watering salaries of senior executives, including at the agency set up to run the since-cancelled 2026 Commonwealth Games.
Standing alongside the piled-up reports, Pesutto made oft-repeated criticisms of dump day and vowed, if elected, to release them all – including the 40 he said should have been tabled this week – in a “timely way”.
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