13 December 2017
MPI rebrand woeful waste of resources
The Minister of Agriculture has announced millions of dollars will be spent on a wasteful and ill-conceived rebrand of
the Ministry for Primary Industries, National’s Primary Industries spokesperson Nathan Guy says.
“Damien O’Connor has announced that almost $20 million will be spent on splitting up a well-functioning Ministry all to
appease the demands of Labour’s coalition.
“It’s nothing more than a pointless rebranding exercise. We put these three agencies together in 2011 and it’s a
complete waste of money to pull them apart again.
“The worst part of it is though, that the money is essentially being fleeced from the Primary Growth Partnership Fund –
used for essential research and development - to pay for bureaucracy.
“It’s just a waste of taxpayers’ money which would have been better invested in growing our primary industries,” Mr Guy
says.
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