New Infrastructure Minister Catherine King stopped short of saying whether she would scrap some of the Coalition’s more controversial projects.
The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption will hold a special public forum on the legal status of pork-barrelling.
Taxpayers have the right to wonder what the federal government is doing promising money for small projects that used to be the domain of local councils and community groups.
Both sides of politics have promised millions towards key marginal seats. But there are now constitutional doubts whether they can spend this taxpayers’ cash.
More than 40 per cent of business support applications have been rejected as ineligible and a further 40 per cent is awaiting assessment.
The state’s two top public servants also said grants must be publicly available on a central website,including any record of a minister deviating from the advice of public servants.
How galling it is to watch politicians merrily traipsing around the country maxing out the national credit card as Australian families are battening down the hatches on their household budgets.
BMX courses,playgrounds and roads are among the promises made in the last four weeks adding up to $23.3 billion from the Coalition and $1.9 billion from Labor.
Residents of 15 western Sydney councils worst hit by pandemic restrictions want better parks and infrastructure.
The findings will fuel an election row over calls for a national integrity commission,which Labor has pledged to establish if it wins government.
Promises for more roads,rail and other transport spending are increasingly popular with federal politicians courting voters,a new analysis finds.