Independent MP Monique Ryan demands major changes to commonwealth grants in light of blistering audit office report
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The health department’s deliberate breaching of grant legislation under the former Coalition government is a bigger scandal than the sports rorts affair, according to a leading integrity body.
The federal MP Monique Ryan labelled the former government’s actions “potentially corrupt” and demanded major changes to commonwealth grants in light of the audit office’s blistering report on administration of the Community Health and Hospitals Program (CHHP).
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