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By Mark Buckley, published 28/1/2020Recently Senator Bridget McKenzie, a National Party member, and Deputy Leader of the party, was found by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) to have acted outside the spirit of a $100 million sports grant program.
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At SteeleRedux's comment above the Wikipedia paragraph quoted comes from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_rorts_affair
Just above the quoted paragraph is:
"The "sports rorts" affair was the name by which Australian media and political commentators came to refer to events during the second Keating ministry in late 1993 and early 1994, where the then Sports Minister, Ros Kelly, was unable to appropriately explain the distribution of federal sporting grants to marginal electorates held by the governing Australian Labor Party. It led to a textbook demonstration of individual ministerial responsibility where, on 28 February 1994, Kelly resigned from her position under consistent pressure from the Australian Democrats and the Liberal opposition about the matter. Ultimately, the controversy also led to her resignation from Parliament..."
Everyone knows the Liberals are cursed by their political dependence on the Nationals. The Nationals, at Federal and State level, are the most corrupt party in Australia.
eg. ignoring water stealing in NSW by the National's rich farmer mates. Also Barnaby Joyce's large sum For-Cash interview about his love life.
Soon Morrison will be forced to sack Senator McKenzie from Cabinet.
But one wouldn't expect McKenzie would follow Ros Kelly's principled move by resigning from Parliament!