Media Statement by the Pakatan Rakyat Alternative Budget Committee on 9 September 2011 in Petaling Jaya Make fuller use of our MPs’ expertise, skills and talents This week, the Pakatan Rakyat Alternative Budget Committee focused on process. Media and public attention focuses only on the…
The Pakatan Rakyat Alternative Budget Committee welcomes the Barisan Nasional’s belated realisation on the importance of helping those who earn below RM3,000 per month. Behind the fa
ANGGARAN PERBELANJAAN PERSEKUTUAN 2011 m/s 95 The Prime Minister’s Department of Pakatan Rakyat will cost just a third of the budget allocated to the current PMD. The Pakatan Rakyat Alternative Budget Committee has decided today that, in line with the spirit of “Kesejahteraan untuk semua”,…
The government’s allocation for the Prime Minister’s Department (PMD) had shot up immensely since 2008 – and Pakatan Rakyat aims to reduce the allocation in order to set funds aside for “more pressing national priorities”. The opposition’s coalition today demanded that Prime Minister Najib Razak…
The world is in search of solutions at a time when populations are growing, energy costs are on a permanent rise, climate change is no longer a fiction, and water and other resources are dwindling. Cities, previously the problem child of policy thinkers, have come…
It was said that “the 19th century was a century of empires; the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.” Economic growth is increasingly driven less by capital and more by the density and availability…
The maiden budget speech of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s administration has been winning praise all round and even opposition MP Liew Chin Tong is saying it is the “best budget speech in years”. But the DAP’s Liew has a caveat. The speech is just…