Award of Funding under the Community Sport Infrastructure Program @ANAO_Australia report tabled: anao.gov.au/work/performan… #auspol 
@ANAO_Australia "Sport Australia’s assessment of applications was largely in accordance with the published program guidelines... In parallel, the Minister’s Office had commenced its own assessment process to identify which applications should be awarded funding." #auspol
@ANAO_Australia "The Minister’s Office drew upon considerations other than those identified in the program guidelines, such as the location of projects, and also applied considerations that were inconsistent with the published guidelines." #auspol
@ANAO_Australia "There was evidence of distribution bias in the award of grant funding. Overall statistics indicate that the award of funding was consistent with the population of eligible applications received by state/territory, but was not consistent with the assessed merit of applications."
@ANAO_Australia "The award of funding reflected the approach documented by the Minister’s Office of focusing on ‘marginal’ electorates held by the Coalition as well as those electorates held by other parties or independent members that were to be ‘targeted’ by the Coalition at the 2019 Election"
@ANAO_Australia "The decision to undertake the audit followed a request from the Shadow Attorney-General for an audit into the circumstances surrounding the Liberal candidate for Mayo’s presentation of a cheque to the Yankalilla Bowling Club for a project that received $127,373 funding" #auspol
