Labor MP Sally Quinnell said she would deliver up to $75,000 to the Camden Musical Society,of which she was a “founding member” and was intimately involved with until mid-2022.
Special Minister of State John Graham said $400,000 would be given to every electorate in NSW under a scheme to fund local community projects.
“This is buying votes with public money”:Geoffrey Watson accuses Labor of pork-barrelling with establishment of $37 million,taxpayer-funded election grants program.
The new details add to a series of revelations about the former MP’s dealings over several years when he was a backbencher and a senior minister.
Leading scientists have raised concerns about the role of ‘captain’s picks’ in the Medical Research Future Fund.
The former Coalition government gave out substantial grants without competition to charities or scientists who personally lobbied for funding.
The Medical Research Future Fund is supposed to back cutting-edge research. Insiders claim its ‘unusual’ structure allows the health minister to hold too much sway.
A joint parliamentary committee has flagged plans to restrict the ability of future governments to pork-barrel their way to electoral victory.
No,it’s not a scene from Speed,it’s the outtakes from a $2 billion federal spending program that poured money into hundreds of projects in a race to win the 2019 election.
Flagrant breaches of Commonwealth grants rules and unethical behaviour were revealed in the peak audit body’s review of the Coalition scheme.
Given all that is at stake,it is sad that the war for the Voice will be so bitterly fought.