**📌#APP_FACTCHECK forgets to fact check itself.**
I don't know who at "AAP factcheck" wrote this particular piece of politically motivated drivel: www.aap.com.au/factcheck/cashless-welfare-card-cost-is-way-off-the-money/ but they are so so way off and appear to only be considering the $70M contract for Indue alone as total CDC related spending - no other contracts or even dept costs and spending. Specious and misleading. Next time before posting such a partisan error riddled article we ask ALL media to FACT CHECK first.
For a start, here is the ministers representative in 2018 confirming the card cost per participant was not 10K it was $12,000 per person IN THE SENATE CHAMBER: /photo/1 ( image 1)
Then you missed all this:
* *EVERY MONTHLY milestone payment and YEARLY payment bonus that Indue Ltd have ever received since 2015.
* $30M new "Work program" announced 5/5/20121
* $21,272,006.80 CN ID: CN3323493-A3 given to Indue Ltd
• Current CDCT roll out costs for Goldfields and Hinkler region.
• $23M additional Indue LTD contract all sites for extended 2yrs. 2020-2022
And this:
• $70M additional extension 2 years IM/BasicsCards NT 2020-2022 due to failed CDC permanency push by LNP
• $17.5M handed to preferentially appointed NT "services" - no tender.
• Procurement and printing contracts -$431,579.50 for Indue Ltd
• Point of Sale Technology contract DXC - $3.4 million so far.
And this:
• Several other DXC contracts NFP - not published.
• Wrap around funding contracts – $1.0M Ceduna 1.6M East Kimberly $1.0M Hinkler and unspec NFP wrap around costs Goldfields.
• Orima evaluation: $922,592 - $1.9M
• Adelaide University Evaluation cost $2.5million.
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And this:
• Other Auxiliary contracts $0.907M (src: ANAO)
• Costs related to roll out police mobilisations Kalgoorlie & Ceduna
• Cost of the ANAO audit - $483,000.
• Costs of CRG, working groups.
• $240,000 paid to US firm Boston Consulting Group
• And all of the most recent CDC documents in the last two Senate Estimates pinned in this post below.
• And that is all quite outside the over 58M in porkbarrelling in Ceduna alone, consisting of grants and redirected funding from regional development and other funding specifically earmarked for actual impoverished regions - Ceduna was not one of them :
theaimn.com/a-new-definition-pork-barrelling-in-the-cashless-debit-card-trial-zones/So anytime AAP you want to come sit with me and let me take the time to walk you through the over $321M dollars in CDC total cumulative spending we mere plebs have been able to track that you seem intent to avoid, our inbox is always open. If you could find it in your hearts to posting bullshit and running disinformation for the LNP, that would be a nice start too.
#auspol #stopthecard #endthisdisgrace #stoptheabuse
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