Opinion
To stop pork-barrelling, confiscate the pork
Handing power to public servants won’t fix the problem of politically targeted grants. Governments should do less and spend less.
John RoskamColumnistThere’s a certain irony in a think tank established with a $30 million taxpayer-funded grant from state and federal Labor governments issuing a report criticising Coalition government “pork-barrelling”.
That’s the difference between Labor in power and the Coalition in office. Labor builds railway station car parks and finances think tanks. The Coalition just builds car parks.
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