Well I had a nice cup of coffee in front of me and it's too early to start the Rover so I thought I'd have a look through the whole thread to see what NSW has spent their license money on.
Well I could not find a spread sheet or table on what they've spent their money on only a link to some projects that are on the NSW DPI site
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fisheries/...onal/your-fees
One of the thing I saw was Fisheries Officers.$1,500,000 was allocated for Fisheries Officers. I would have thought their wages would have come out of the Government's coffers seeing they directly report to a Government department.
Then I found a post where committee members cost 60odd thousand dollars for meetings...and Pinhead said why??? Conference calls or webcams.
Real Andy also asked about what has been done with his money as he fishes the FNC of NSW and the reply was ...call the area rep.
Now I see the license has raised $34,500,000 over the last 3 years.
Looking at the link above about where the fees go the list of projects generally run from 2001 to 2008.
I cannot see where the 34 and 1/2 million dollars has been spent in the last 3 years...buggered if I can.
Actually looking at the projects there were a total of 56 grants given out for fishing facilities from 2001-2008. 25 of these grants were given to councils. That's nearly 1/2 of the grants were given to councils to do jobs rates are supposed to pay for.
I added up the figures for the angling facilities and the total came to about $350,000 from 2001-2008 with grants ranging from $333 for signs for the Singleton Fly Fishing Club to $20,000 for 3 fish cleaning tables for Coffs Harbour council.
Looking at the figures a lot of the larger grants were to Councils for fish cleaning tables.
So if I missed the table or spread sheet on what the money has been spent on I would really appreciate the effort of posting it.
There were no links on the fishing license site where I could see the spread sheet only gross generalisations.
So ... are the expenditures really transparent??
Time to start the Rover now