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Why McKenzie's sports rorts defence is wrong
Australia's constitutional rulebook doesn't allow federal governments to splash money on local sports groups without parliamentary approval.
Anne TwomeyLaw professorGovernment pork-barrelling using sports grants is nothing new. Labor’s Ros Kelly made it an art-form in 1994, but at least had the sense to wipe the evidence off her great big whiteboard.
What is astonishing about the latest sports-rorts affair is its brazenness, culminating in the assertion that "no rules were broken". The public seems largely to have swallowed this heroic assertion. But is it true?
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