Audit committee calls for crackdown on politicised funding schemes following controversy over urban congestion and building better regions funds
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Rules governing billions of dollars of federal grants should be tightened, with clearer reasons for departing from departmental recommendations and less ministerial discretion to choose from pools of eligible projects.
Those are some of the central recommendations of the audit committee’s review of the commonwealth grants rules, in a bid to crack down on politicised programs including car park rorts, the building better regions fund and safer communities program examined by the auditor general.
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