Barnaby Joyce is refusing to release the cost-benefit analysis of his plan to move the commonwealth government’s pesticides agency to his own electorate. He made the announcement before a cost-benefit analysis of the move had been completed. Now he is refusing to release the analysis, saying there’s no need to because the decision has been made. “If I did a cost-benefit analysis on public transport they’d probably say it doesn’t pay for itself,” he said. The Greens said if the cost-benefit analysis was negative, one could only assume Joyce was relocating the agency to his own electorate for personal political reasons.

Source: The Guardian September 11, 2016 05:03 UTC