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John Roskam

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.

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There’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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John Roskam is a senior fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. Connect with John on Twitter.

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