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CROOKED COALITION BUSTED !
Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:21pm
 
Bridget McKenzie should be booted from office!


https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/15/coalition-gave-out-100m-e...

Coalition gave out $100m in pre-election grants favouring targeted seats, audit office says

The Coalition awarded $100m in sport grants that were not assessed on their merits in order to favour “targeted” Coalition seats at the May 2019 election, according to a scathing report from the Australian National Audit Office released on Wednesday.

The report, by auditor general Grant Hehir, slammed the handling of the program by the then sports minister, Nationals deputy leader Bridget McKenzie, finding she ignored the merit-based assessment undertaken by Sports Australia for almost half the successful projects.

The audit office found the successful applications were “not those that had been assessed as the most meritorious in terms of the published program guidelines”, finding McKenzie’s office had run a “parallel” assessment process in deciding how to hand out the funds.


Its report found there was a distributional bias in the award of grants.

“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,” the audit said.

“Applications from projects located in those electorates were more successful in being awarded funding than if funding was allocated on the basis of merit assessed against the published program guidelines.”

The $100m program was administered by the Australian Sports Commission, known as Sport Australia, with the guidelines saying eligible applications would be assessed competitively against the three weighted merit criteria.

However, Hehir found that the separate process undertaken by McKenzie’s office “drew upon considerations other than those identified in the program guidelines, such as the location of projects”. Her office “also applied considerations that were inconsistent with the published guidelines”, the auditor said.

“It was this assessment process that predominantly informed the Minister’s funding decisions, rather than Sport Australia’s process,” the audit said.

Sports Australia had ranked the projects after assessing each application for eligibility and against the three merit criteria to arrive at an overall assessment score.

The ANAO was tasked with examining the program after Labor questioned how the Liberal candidate for Mayo, Georgina Downer, was able to present a giant taxpayer-funded $127,373 cheque to the Yankalilla Bowling Club in February 2019.

The program, called the Community Sport Infrastructure Grant Program, was announced in 2018 to ensure more Australians had access to quality sporting facilities, encouraging greater community participation in sport and physical activity.

During a short application timeframe of just six weeks, Sport Australia received 2,056 project proposals seeking more than $396.6m.

Funding totalling $100m was awarded to 684 projects across three rounds in the months before the election, with the final round announced in April.

Hehir said that had a merit based process been followed, the cut-off score would have been 74 out of a possible 100. More than 400 projects received funding that were below this score, in defiance of recommendations made by Sports Australia.

The auditor found the design of the program was deficient in a number of areas. There was potentially no legal basis for the minister to approve successful projects, and “it is not evident to the ANAO what the legal authority was”, which it said was a “serious shortcoming”.

He found the guidelines were “well structured and included clear assessment criteria with transparent weightings”, even if these were ultimately ignored.

McKenzie’s office has been contacted for comment.
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Reply #1 - Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:25pm
 
the Guardian.... yaawwwwwwwwwwwwn...
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Reply #2 - Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:33pm
 
cods wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:25pm:
the Guardian.... yaawwwwwwwwwwwwn...


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-15/government-sport-grants-targeted-marginal...

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6581880/audit-sparked-by-georgina-downers...

More to come as the news spreads!

YAWN..... OLD DOUBTING THOMAS CODS!!!! Wink

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Reply #3 - Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:33pm
 
cods wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:25pm:
the Guardian.... yaawwwwwwwwwwwwn...


Are you saying it didn't happen, cods?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-15/government-sport-grants-targeted-marginal...

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Reply #4 - Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:36pm
 
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:33pm:
cods wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:25pm:
the Guardian.... yaawwwwwwwwwwwwn...


Are you saying it didn't happen, cods?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-15/government-sport-grants-targeted-marginal...



Seems that way!

Maybe with luck it will appear in the crooked Murdoch Press!!!

Dont hold your breath though!  Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
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Reply #5 - Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:42pm
 
Redmond Neck wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:36pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:33pm:
cods wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:25pm:
the Guardian.... yaawwwwwwwwwwwwn...


Are you saying it didn't happen, cods?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-15/government-sport-grants-targeted-marginal...



Seems that way!

Maybe with luck it will appear in the crooked Murdoch Press!!!

Dont hold your breath though!  Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin


McKenzie is pretty dodgy.

Does she still claim to be "Bendigo-based", despite living in an inner-city Melbourne apartment?    Grin

Does she still hold the record for having the highest travel expenses in one year (used for personal reasons, on many occasions)?

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Reply #6 - Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:45pm
 
cods wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:25pm:
the Guardian.... yaawwwwwwwwwwwwn...

Cods just LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVES the Coalition's CORRUPTION and MISCONDUCT.
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Reply #7 - Jan 15th, 2020 at 4:17pm
 
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:33pm:
cods wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:25pm:
the Guardian.... yaawwwwwwwwwwwwn...


Are you saying it didn't happen, cods?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-15/government-sport-grants-targeted-marginal...



Nothing ever happens in cods life. Such a boring old biddy Cheesy LOL
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Reply #8 - Jan 15th, 2020 at 5:00pm
 
Redmond Neck wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:33pm:
cods wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:25pm:
the Guardian.... yaawwwwwwwwwwwwn...


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-15/government-sport-grants-targeted-marginal...

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6581880/audit-sparked-by-georgina-downers...

More to come as the news spreads!

YAWN..... OLD DOUBTING THOMAS CODS!!!! Wink



She 'YAWNS' because she has other way of dealing with the subject matter.
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Reply #9 - Jan 15th, 2020 at 5:32pm
 
Hang em high

eh Bob?


No really

PUNISH the BASTARDS

and impoverish them

strip them of ANY of our money

CANCEL their pensions and other perks


and parade them throughout the land on the back of a flat bed truck so we can pelt them with filth

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Reply #10 - Jan 15th, 2020 at 5:37pm
 
PZ547 wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 5:32pm:
Hang em high

eh Bob?


No really

PUNISH the BASTARDS

and impoverish them

strip them of ANY of our money

CANCEL their pensions and other perks


and parade them throughout the land on the back of a flat bed truck so we can pelt them with filth



He's dreaming!  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
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Reply #11 - Jan 15th, 2020 at 5:40pm
 
Redmond Neck wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 5:37pm:
PZ547 wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 5:32pm:
Hang em high

eh Bob?


No really

PUNISH the BASTARDS

and impoverish them

strip them of ANY of our money

CANCEL their pensions and other perks


and parade them throughout the land on the back of a flat bed truck so we can pelt them with filth



He's dreaming!  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes




yeah, but aren't we told to believe that should we dream it, it will become reality?

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Reply #12 - Jan 15th, 2020 at 5:42pm
 
PZ547 wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 5:32pm:
Hang em high

eh Bob?


No really

PUNISH the BASTARDS

and impoverish them

strip them of ANY of our money

CANCEL their pensions and other perks


and parade them throughout the land on the back of a flat bed truck so we can pelt them with filth

Why accord them the luxury of a flatbed truck?

A horse-drawn tumbrel would be more fitting.
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Reply #13 - Jan 15th, 2020 at 5:50pm
 
Bam wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 5:42pm:
PZ547 wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 5:32pm:
Hang em high

eh Bob?


No really

PUNISH the BASTARDS

and impoverish them

strip them of ANY of our money

CANCEL their pensions and other perks


and parade them throughout the land on the back of a flat bed truck so we can pelt them with filth

Why accord them the luxury of a flatbed truck?

A horse-drawn tumbrel would be more fitting.



think I remember that we flogged them off to china years ago

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Reply #14 - Jan 16th, 2020 at 6:15am
 
cods wrote on Jan 15th, 2020 at 3:25pm:
the Guardian.... yaawwwwwwwwwwwwn...


More and more LIBERAL corruption........ yawnnnnn.
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