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The #SportsRorts scandal has outed huge sums of public money pork barrelled to Liberal target seats - 💰 $100k here, $5 million there 💰 - but it’s not until you look closer at a campaign that you realise this was not just a part of Lib campaign, it WAS the campaign. A thread👇🏻
I am using Sarah Henderson’s campaign as example - former MP for Corangamite and now Liberal Senator. She won narrowly in 2016, and seat was a key Liberal target as under threat from Labor MP Libby Coker who won it narrowly in 2019.
I know you’re thinking Labor won seat so pork barrelling didn’t work. But hang on. In nearby Corio, Labor had +4.18% swing. In Bendigo, Labor’s swing was +5.18%. Both are safe Labor seats, so no Lib pork barrelling. Corangamite only had a swing to Labor of 1.41%.
I have been thinking similar thoughts about what #SportsRort #RoboDebt
et al say about the decay of legality and an apparent abondonment of any aspiration of Rule of Law in our political class - and increasingly the public service #auspol #auslaw
theguardian.com/australia-news…
et al say about the decay of legality and an apparent abondonment of any aspiration of Rule of Law in our political class - and increasingly the public service #auspol #auslaw
theguardian.com/australia-news…
There seems to be a supine acceptance that major legal problems, but it is being assessed in solely political terms
The constitutional problems with #SportsRort are explicitly excluded from review
The constitutional problems with #SportsRort are explicitly excluded from review
The administrative law issues (profound and incontrovertible) are ignored on the basis that no one is going to go to the trouble and expense given the restricted remedies available
I have managed national grant programs, written grant applications for everything from NRL teams to small local festivals and worked as advisor to Federal and State Ministers.
I have never seen any grant program as unethically managed and abused as #BridgetMcKenzie has done...1/5
I have never seen any grant program as unethically managed and abused as #BridgetMcKenzie has done...1/5
All applications were independently assessed and ranked against the grant criteria by Sports Australia. This is standard practice.
Those independent assessments were ignored by #BridgetMcKenzie. This is not standard practice... 2/5
Those independent assessments were ignored by #BridgetMcKenzie. This is not standard practice... 2/5
#BridgetMcKenzie and @ScottMorrisonMP claim there is nothing to see here as all grants awarded were "eligible". In the grants process, eligibility is established in the first few questions about the legal and financial status and perhaps their...3/5
