"A PISA report released this week showed that Australian students are performing worse today than students ten years ago. Considering our federal education budget has grown by over $8.5 billion in the last 5 years, these results point to a larger issue within Australian education,” said ATA Communications Manager, Emilio Garcia.
Read More“The government is not a jobs program for struggling bureaucrats. ScoMo is taking a knife to government waste. Just one of the departments ScoMo is expected to cut, the Department of Communications and the Arts, costs taxpayers $11.3 billion,” said ATA Policy Director, Emilie Dye.
Read MoreNSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell treated taxpayer funds like her father’s platinum credit card. She deserves worse than a solid grounding for this gross misuse of tax dollars, especially given that it hasn’t produced any results,” said ATA Policy Director, Emilie Dye.
Read More“There ain’t nothin’ gonna get in the way of farmers determined to water their fields and feed their livestock. The Murray Darling Basin Plan is barricading farmers from available water during a drought. These hard-working Aussies deserve so much better and they are willing to fight to get it,” said ATA Policy Director, Emilie Dye.
Read More“The government made a $51 billion mess when it attempted to create a national broadband network off the backs of taxpayers. Now in a misguided attempt to pay for the disaster and punish the Australians who refuse to use a broken internet system, the government is charging taxpayers an additional $7.10 on their internet each month,” said ATA Policy Director, Emilie Dye.
Read More“Australians have spoken. People need to learn to toughen up and focus on the real issues. Putting food on the table and keeping the lights on matter more than whether someone’s feelings are hurt because some bloke accidentally said a mean word,” said ATA Policy Director, Emilie Dye.
Read More"It's indefensible that universities with massive endowments receive taxpayer dollars at all. But now this has turned into a matter of national security," said ATA Communications Manager, Emilio Garcia. “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has slipped into our universities and is attempting through propaganda to brain-wash the youth."
Read More“Pencil pushing bureaucrats have moved to regulate basic supplements the same way as medicines. This policy nonsense is typical of out-of-touch public servants who probably think aioli is spicy and that apple-cider vinegar cures cancer, ” said Emilie Dye, Policy Director of the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance.
Read More“Many untruths run rampant across social media spreading misinformation. But to require censoring, as laid out in Christian Porter’s proposed change to defamation law, would infringe on the freedom of all Australians to speak their ideas publicly,” said ATA Policy Director, Emilie Dye.
Read More“The $10 million the NSW government is spending teaching kids about various trades is but a drop in the total $111.8 billion education budget. By teaching kids they can pursue their dreams outside of uni, these NSW schools reduce unnecessary demand for university. This takes pressure off of the taxpayers tasked with funding these superfluous degrees,” said ATA Policy Director, Emilie Dye.
Read MoreThe NSW government refuses to tell Aussies which hospitals are high-risk for patients, which nursing homes have the worst rates of assault against patients, and which buildings have the same flammable cladding that produced the fatal Grenfell Tower disaster in London,” said Emilie Dye, ATA Policy Director. “And pollies wonder why public faith in our democracy is at record lows.”
Read More“Rather than filling potholes with the money the government collects with the fuel tax, Victorian bureaucrats are filling holes in the budget by fining drivers,” said ATA Communications Manager, Emilie Dye. “Speed cameras are not about safety; they provide a lucrative source of income for the government.
Read More“2019 has been a year in which the ATO has been involved in unethical behaviour towards taxpayers and small businesses. It is heartwarming to see that they do indeed have the capacity for common sense and compassion,” said ATA Communications Manager, Emilie Dye.
Read More“Bar Josephine was once a well known haunt for dogs and their owners, but the Maribyrnong City Council has forced them to bar their doors against canines. This policy hurts not only dogs and their owners who would like to enjoy a night out, but the community in general,” says ATA Communications Manager, Emilie Dye.”
Read MoreWe today condemned GetUp! for using tragic bushfires to ask for donations for their political campaigns, and called on Australians to instead donate to bushfire relief charities and fundraising drives that help victims and their families.
Read More“The coalition government’s $1 billion drought package is reminiscent of a passerby giving a beggar his spare change to alleviate guilt,” says ATA Communications Manager, Emilie Dye. “But the homeless person still sleeps on the street and the farmer still watches his crops and animals die.”
Read More“The idea that a broadcaster needs a review to determine whether inciting violence and claiming an entire race in Australia has no morality breaches editorial standards would be laughable if it wasn’t so disrespectful,” said ATA Communications Manager, Emilie Dye.
Read More“Only a small percentage of Aussies identify with the polarising ideas inherent in identity politics, gender studies, intersectionality, and woke culture,” says ATA Communications Manager, Emilie Dye. “Meanwhile the government spends taxpayer dollars to shove this worldview down the throats of those quiet Australians.”
Read More“Being wrong should not disqualify an individual from speaking their mind,” says ATA Content Co-ordinator, Emilio Garcia, “However distasteful Australians find the extinction rebellion’s tactics, this does not give ScoMo the right to violate Australians’ fundamental right to free speech.”
Read More“If there is any justification for the $2.7 million in taxpayer dollars the government spends on equestrian sports, it is taking bureaucrats out of the office for a few hours,” says ATA Communications Manager, Emilie Dye. “The Melbourne Cup will hopefully distract pollies from coming up with new and creative ways to waste taxpayer money and regulate every Australian sneeze.”
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