Vic: Labor minister pays mate to write speech

AAP General News (Australia)
08-07-2006
Vic: Labor minister pays mate to write speech

A Bracks government minister has paid a friend in the Labor party more than two-thousand
dollars to write a speech .. even though he had speech writers employed in his department.

Minister assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs JOHN PANDAZOPOULOS .. paid
DENNIS GLOVER two-thousand-and-64 dollars of taxpayer's money to write a speech on multiculturalism.

Mr GLOVER is a former speechwriter for MARK LATHAM, SIMON CREAN and KIM BEAZLEY.

He told the Herald Sun newspaper it took him two days to write the speech .. which
also included a short version.

He says Mr PANDAZOPOULOS'S staff may not have had the necessary skills to write the speech.

Liberal MP NICK KOTSIRAS has accused Mr PANDAZOPOULOS of wasting taxpayers money ..

suggesting he rid of his current staff if he has no faith in their speech writing abilities.

AAP RTV sam/psm/

KEYWORD: SPEECH (MELBOURNE)

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