Colin Hansen, our Liberal Finance Minister has done a remarkable job of shooting himself in the foot, what with his revelation that he had been informed by a senior Finance Minister official (the Deputy Finance Minister of all people) that the original deficit forecast was going to be off by a few hundreds of millions of dollars, mainly thanks to a decline in resource fortunes.
The bad financial news was first apparently delivered a few months ago, in what Hansen calls a casual conversation or an aside as he puts it . Judging by the fancy dancing over the last twenty four hours on this one, it seems felt that the surging deficit problem wasn’t something that needed to be shared with the Premier at the time, at least if we try to piece together the timeline of all of this…
(from the blog a town called podunk, click on the link below to see the entire article atowncalledpodunk.blogspot.com/2 … 1455140772 )-