State Health Minister David Davis accused the Gillard Government of using ''slippery and flawed population'' figures to justify a $107 million cut to hospital funding.
Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek said Victoria was running a heartless political campaign to cover up its own cuts to elective surgery.
She said Victoria was ''the state of secrecy'' after a report by the public hospital funding administrator showed it was the only state not to provide a break down on how much it spent on emergency departments, mental health, small hospital sub-acute beds and other costs.
Mr Davis released an independent analysis by KPMG and letters from the Bureau of Statistics which he said backed his argument that Treasurer Wayne Swan had used wrong population figures in calculating the funding and caused $475 million to be slashed over four years.
''It's a flawed, dodgy calculation that strips money directly from patients,'' Mr Davis said.
She said Victoria had cut its funding by $616 million.
''It's a deliberately heartless political campaign to cover their own cuts and maximise pain for patients,'' she said.
heraldsun.com.au 13 Feb 2013
The whole purpose of the 'secrecy' is so that the peasants can be ruled over without any fear to government authority, at the same time, the government is also able to commit fraud against the masses.
Australia is uniquely a nanny state, where monitoring of the masses is done at every level. It is only through the ignorance of the stupidity of the uneducated herd that the authorities are getting away with breaches of civil liberties every day, on a grand scale.
Whilst the above article may pertain to secrecy in the health sector, it is actually spread across the entire board.
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