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Power station feasibility grant broke funding rules: Auditor-General

Tom McIlroy

Coalition funding for a feasibility study into a coal-fired power station at Collinsville did not follow appropriate assessments and was only partially consistent with federal grant rules, a bruising audit report has found.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison secured peace with the Nationals in early 2019 by agreeing to investigate underwriting a new plant in Queensland’s north.

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Tom McIlroy was the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief.

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