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Fortescue Metals chairman and founder Andrew Forrest.
It’s shaping up as the first big rort of the year, and boy is it a whopper.
The Bushfire Local Economic Recovery Fund was supposed to be a rescue package for NSW communities ravaged by last year’s Black Summer bushfires.
Instead, it’s at the centre of a new pork-barrelling scandal, with allegations funding has been targeted to Coalition-held state seats including $10 million for a paper mill controlled by one of the Coalition’s biggest donors, Anthony Pratt.
Now another famous billionaire has been drawn into the scandal.
Mining billionaire Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest is having to justify topping up the fund with cash from his multibillion-dollar philanthropy vehicle the Minderoo Foundation.