{"id":1034,"date":"2010-10-01T00:31:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T00:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2010\/10\/01\/green-loans-program\/"},"modified":"2010-10-01T00:31:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T00:31:33","slug":"green-loans-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/green-loans-program\/","title":{"rendered":"GREEN LOANS PROGRAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GREEN LOANS REPORT HIGHLIGHTS MISMANAGEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>October 1, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A report into the $300 million failed Green Loans Program, which left many Gippslanders thousands of dollars out of pocket, has described the running of the program as \u2018generally disorganised\u2019 and \u2018poorly managed\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has been acting on behalf of local Green Loans Program assessors who have been left out of pocket. He said the performance report which was released by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) highlighted the Rudd-Gillard Government\u2019s bungled handling of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Among the findings were the program was \u2018characterised by an absence of effective governance\u2019 and \u2018in the first 18 months of the program there was no accurate costing of the program or monitoring of its budget\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said the report highlighted how Gippslanders were left thousands of dollars out of pocket due to an incompetent government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Green Loans Program collapsed because it was completely mismanaged and became an absolute financial disaster for participants,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people spent between $2000 and $3000 to train as assessors under the program because they were assured by the Labor Government that there would be plenty of work for them to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Rudd-Gillard Government failed to administer the program properly and trained more than 10,000 assessors, many of them in Gippsland, who have been left with nothing to show for their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunity groups also felt the full brunt of the program\u2019s failings. They invested time and money to train participants but had their work undone by government incompetence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said he expects the report to be of little comfort for participants and has questioned whether the government will compensate people for their losses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe failure to properly administer the program resulted in direct financial losses to individuals and the government has left taxpayers\u2019 exposed to claims for compensation,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GREEN LOANS REPORT HIGHLIGHTS MISMANAGEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>October 1, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A report into the $300 million failed Green Loans Program, which left many Gippslanders thousands of dollars out of pocket, has described the running of the program as \u2018generally disorganised\u2019 and \u2018poorly managed\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has been acting on behalf of local Green Loans Program assessors who have been left out of pocket. He said the performance report which was released by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) highlighted the Rudd-Gillard Government\u2019s bungled handling of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Among the findings were the program was \u2018characterised by an absence of effective governance\u2019 and \u2018in the first 18 months of the program there was no accurate costing of the program or monitoring of its budget\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}