Government grants
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Labor pumps cash into battleground states
Search your electorate to find out whether it received part of the $600 million the government splashed on infrastructure projects.
- James Massola
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Prominent campaigner claims NSW Labor ‘used’ her for electoral gain
A campaigner against domestic violence claims she was promised $20,000 for her organisation. When she didn’t get it, she had a bit to say.
- Max Maddison and Michael McGowan
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Labor pumps cash into battleground states
Find out how much money your electorate got from the grants scheme – and where all the cash went.
- James Massola
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In the race to be Australia’s ‘lord mayor’, Albanese has a $1.2 billion case to answer
Labor has far outpaced Peter Dutton on local projects this month amid a political row over spending cuts.
- David Crowe
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‘Vehicle for buying votes’: The next test for Labor’s controversial $37m election fund
The trouble-plagued Local Small Commitment Allocation program will be audited by the NSW auditor-general and face an upper house inquiry.
- Max Maddison
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Secret review reveals conflicts of interest in Labor’s $37 million community grants scheme
Two projects under Labor’s controversial grants program were kiboshed by the Premier’s Department over “unacceptable” conflict of interest concerns.
- Max Maddison
Inner West Council rejected the state’s housing plan. The PM gave them $2.6 million to do it again
Anthony Albanese has given his home council millions to redo housing plans already drawn up by the state Labor government.
- Michael Koziol
This north shore council was ordered to repay $36 million for unbuilt park. Instead, it wants to sue
An outraged Philip Ruddock, the Liberal mayor of Hornsby, said he was “as disappointed as I am flabbergasted” by the government’s decision to recall the funding.
- Michael Koziol
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This Sydney council has to hand back ‘pork-barrelling millions’ for park that was never built
The grants program run by the former Coalition government went predominantly to Liberal and National electorates. Now one council’s been ordered to return the money.
- Alexandra Smith
PM warned against ‘slippery slope’ of picking business winners with taxpayer billions
Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood said the government’s push to subsidise manufacturing risks creating businesses that rely on handouts. And her predecessors agree.
- David Crowe and Shane Wright
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