Tapping the pork barrel: how the government is spending your cash
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Liberal-held electorates received three times more taxpayer money than Labor-held seats over a three year period spanning the last federal election. That’s the finding of an exclusive analysis by TheSydney Morning Herald and TheAge released today.
Two of our journalists examined an astounding 19,123 individual government grants to local communities totalling $2.8 billion in taxpayer money.
Their results reveal a highly politicised system rife with uneven spending, which experts have slammed as “soft bribery” and “a corruption of our democracy”.
Today on Please Explain, political reporter Katina Curtis and senior economics correspondent Shane Wright join Jess Irvine to discuss.
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Liberal-held electorates received three times more taxpayer money than Labor-held seats over a three year period spanning the last federal election. That’s the finding of an exclusive analysis by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age released today.
Two of our journalists examined an astounding 19,123 individual government grants to local communities totalling $2.8 billion in taxpayer money.
Their results reveal a highly politicised system rife with uneven spending, which experts have slammed as “soft bribery” and “a corruption of our democracy”.
Today on Please Explain, political reporter Katina Curtis and senior economics correspondent Shane Wright join Jess Irvine to discuss.
Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.