{"id":32015,"date":"2016-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/local-business-misses-out-on-421-million-worth-of-work-from-state-government-2\/"},"modified":"2016-05-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T00:00:00","slug":"local-business-misses-out-on-421-million-worth-of-work-from-state-government-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/local-business-misses-out-on-421-million-worth-of-work-from-state-government-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Local business misses out on $421m worth of work from State Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A Freedom of Information request has revealed that the State Government has spent $421 million with businesses outside South Australia since January 2015.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt beggars belief that hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars has been paid to interstate and overseas companies in the last 18 months,\u201d Leon Byner said on FIVEAA on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the hell\u2019s gone wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government has a responsibility to tax payers it clearly, in terms of jobs, does not understand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest issue facing SA is unemployment. It is a fundamental problem that requires the most urgent attention,\u201d Leon said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can any minister of the Crown with a straight face talk jobs when this $421m oversight exists?\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN TO LEON BYNER HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/266541776&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Liberal member for Hartley Vincent Tarzia accused the government of overlooking local business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think it\u2019s completely unacceptable that so much government work has been awarded to companies outside of South Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think the government should be backing South Australia businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said a Liberal government would back SA business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the lead up to the election we will be announcing policies in terms of procurement,\u201d Mr Tarzia said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/nerves-build-over-josh-jenkins-future-at-adelaide-crows\">NERVES BUILD OVER JENKINS\u2019 FUTURE AT THE CROWS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/fears-rezoning-wil-%20transform-victor-harbor-into-the-next-gold-coast\">FEARS SA HOLIDAY TOWN WILL BECOME THE NEXT GOLD COAST<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Freedom of Information request has revealed that the State Government has spent $421 million with businesses outside South Australia since January 2015. \u201cIt beggars belief that hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars has been paid to interstate and overseas companies in the last 18 months,\u201d Leon Byner said on FIVEAA on Monday. \u201cWhat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-32015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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