Commercial in-confidence? Not with taxpayers’ money
A decreasing number of attendees at the Adelaide 500 complain about Victoria stealing our Grand Prix. That’s largely because there is a decreasing number of attendees and those numbers are including the attendees at the post-race concerts.
I’m told that SA Treasury advised against renewing the contract. The last three times the previous Liberal Government listened the Labor Government reinstated it. When there was a protest for it, more people attended to save a stately home from road works than to reinstate the car race.
Rumour has it as part of a Party Pete factional deal to get the then Leader of the Opposition nominated. As for the condition of South Australian roads, it’s taken 50 years to get the South Road finished one day.
Every time I hear people complaining about the state of SA roads, I invite them to come see the A1 state of our Street Circuit, SA’s most resurfaced road. The truth is that commercial in-confidence should never apply to taxpayers’ money. Both sides of politics defend it because they both need it to hide their shonky deals.
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