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Sports Australia Admits It Misled Senate Inquiry
Mar 4th, 2020 at 7:05pm
 
Sport Australia admits it misled Senate inquiry over sports funding program   Sad

March 4, 2020
Sydney Morning Herald


Furious senators have slammed the nation's peak sporting agency for misleading an inquiry into a controversial $100 million sports funding program, sparking a new political attack over the community grants.   

Labor senators rebuked Sport Australia for giving incorrect evidence to a Senate committee over a series of emails that finalised the grants after the government went into caretaker mode at the start of last year's federal election campaign.


Chief Operating Officer Luke McCann has admitted giving incorrect evidence at the inquiry into the handling of the sports grants program.

The rebuke came after Sport Australia chief operating officer Luke McCann told a Senate estimates hearing on Wednesday morning his earlier evidence had been wrong and had not yet been formally corrected.

Labor accused the government of a "cover-up" over the $100 million program when Mr McCann revealed a meeting between ministerial advisers on Tuesday night to prepare for the hearing the following morning amid intense scrutiny of the scheme.


Senior Sport Australia officers told a Senate inquiry last week there was one email at 8.46am from the office of then-sports minister Bridget McKenzie on the day the 2019 federal election was announced, containing the list of projects to be funded in the third round of the program.


But the Australian National Audit Office gave evidence on Monday there was a second email from Senator McKenzie's office at 12.43pm with a different list of projects.

Confronted with this information, Mr McCann admitted to the hearing on Wednesday morning that his earlier evidence was wrong. 

Mr McCann said his team had given him incorrect information last week and had realised their mistake by Monday, but that he had not read the email informing him of this until Tuesday. He acknowledged he did not correct the record until Wednesday morning.

Labor senator Katy Gallagher said the Senate took the "misleading" evidence very seriously.

Mr McCann said the second email on April 11 last year, the day the election was announced, changed funding for 10 projects worth about $2.7 million. One was removed and nine were added.

"We were advised at 12.43pm that there were some errors in that [8.46am] brief and that this was the correct brief," Mr McCann said. "That was how it was characterised by the minister's office."

Mr McCann said he could not say what the errors were and could not say the name of the project that had been removed from the funding brief.

Sports Minister Richard Colbeck rejected Labor claims this amounted to misleading the Senate, arguing instead there was a "difference in evidence" and revealed he also met with advisers from Mr Morrison's office on Tuesday night to discuss the inquiry.

The 8.46am and 12.43pm emails were sent after Parliament went into caretaker mode at 8.29am that day, launching the 2019 election campaign. Caretaker conventions dictate that the government avoids making major policy decisions and significant appointments, and entering into major contracts, but they do not forbid ministerial decisions.

The government insists the emails conveyed information but did not amount to decisions by Mr Morrison or his office, given that Senator McKenzie was the official decision-maker.

Labor frontbencher Pat Conroy asked Mr Morrison in question time about the meeting between Senator Colbeck and two staff from the Prime Minister's office to discuss the program on Tuesday night, ahead of the estimates hearing.

"Did the Prime Minister know before or after that meeting that the Parliament had been misled about sports rorts?" Mr Conroy asked.

"Can the Prime Minister confirm that his office is coordinating the cover-up?"

Mr Morrison rejected that claim of a cover-up and said the resignation of Senator McKenzie as minister showed the government took the issue seriously.

'You can't spin this': Labor accuses Morrison of deception over sports funding program

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Reply #1 - Mar 4th, 2020 at 7:18pm
 
Shock Horror Sports Aust riddled with Lefty and Greeny plants put there by Gillard is the one that is corrupt.

Their selection was biased to Socialist electorates. The Libs simply restored justice and fairness.
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Reply #2 - Mar 4th, 2020 at 8:19pm
 
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Senior Sport Australia officers told a Senate inquiry last week there was one email at 8.46am from the office of then-sports minister Bridget McKenzie on the day the 2019 federal election was announced, containing the list of projects to be funded in the third round of the program.

But the Australian National Audit Office gave evidence on Monday there was a second email from Senator McKenzie's office at 12.43pm with a different list of projects.

Confronted with this information, Mr McCann admitted to the hearing on Wednesday morning that his earlier evidence was wrong.

Mr McCann said his team had given him incorrect information last week and had realised their mistake by Monday, but that he had not read the email informing him of this until Tuesday. He acknowledged he did not correct the record until Wednesday morning.


Bullshit....Nobody could get such basic information wrong about an email or it's contents and be so specific....Sport Australia chief operating officer Luke McCann couldn't have just made the whole thing up....These ass holes are taking us for mugs???

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Reply #3 - Mar 4th, 2020 at 8:27pm
 
heads need to roll  ....and the morriscum government ministers involved need to go to jail

including morriscum

if this was out in the real world they'd be facing some sort of fraud charges.
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Reply #4 - Mar 5th, 2020 at 8:21am
 
John Smith wrote on Mar 4th, 2020 at 8:27pm:
heads need to roll  ....and the morriscum government ministers involved need to go to jail

including morriscum

if this was out in the real world they'd be facing some sort of fraud charges.


Just business as usual with these corrupt aceholes. Surely this has to be the most corrupt federal administration in australia's history. Daily new corruption cases have now become the norm.
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Reply #5 - Mar 5th, 2020 at 9:37am
 
macman wrote on Mar 5th, 2020 at 8:21am:
John Smith wrote on Mar 4th, 2020 at 8:27pm:
heads need to roll  ....and the morriscum government ministers involved need to go to jail

including morriscum

if this was out in the real world they'd be facing some sort of fraud charges.


Just business as usual with these corrupt aceholes. Surely this has to be the most corrupt federal administration in australia's history. Daily new corruption cases have now become the norm.


Absolutely.

No surprise though.

Wasn't Scotty from marketing sacked from his last job for fraud and theft?

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Reply #6 - Mar 5th, 2020 at 11:52am
 
McKenzie would have known the bloke lied.  That means it is likely Morrison knew as well.  Neither did anything to set the record straight.
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Reply #7 - Mar 5th, 2020 at 12:09pm
 
The Lefties are clinging to the futile hope that if they shake the sport farce tin can hard enough something might fall out.

The Libs are above reproach and lily white and honest and acted with fairness and justice.

The rorts are in the wonky Lefty biased Sports Body. Just like the High Court making an absurd judgement about Aboriginies.

Another failed attempt by the sinking Greeny controlled Labor Party to try to create something out of nothing as they desperately need a distraction from Labor's new juicy scandals.

At the rate that the Corona Virus UN population control is knocking 'em dead soon there won't be any sports meetings!!!!

The Lefties are getting upset because they are slowly realizing that the Greeny controlled Labor Party does not have a Snowball's Hope in Hell of winning the next election.
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Reply #8 - Apr 7th, 2020 at 10:09am
 
Now the Sports Rorts Farce has caught the Corona virus.
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