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Car parks were all about marginal seats, not here s where congestion is greatest

Car parks were all about marginal seats, not ‘here’s where congestion is greatest’ By Kishor Napier-Raman Tuesday July 20, 2021 Alan Tudge (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) It started with a list of the top 20 marginal seats, cooked up in former infrastructure minister Alan Tudge’s office. It ended with the Coalition funnelling millions meant to fund commuter car parks towards projects in Coalition-held electorates or target seats in the run-up to the 2019 election. At a spillover estimates hearing of the Senate’s Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee yesterday morning, officials from the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) revealed the startling lack of transparency and effective administration, as well as bad design that plagued the $660 million commuter car park fund, and its parent program the $4 billion Urban Congestion Fund (UCF).

The government won t answer questions on car park rorts Why?

(Image: Tom Red/Private Media) Federal ministers are continuing to duck questions and defend their maladministration of a project to fund commuter car parks which funnelled millions of dollars to Coalition-held seats ahead of the 2019 election.  At a spillover Senate estimates hearing yesterday, the Australian National Audit Office’s (ANAO) executive director Brian Boyd confirmed staff in then urban infrastructure minister Alan Tudge’s office allocated the funding by devising a list of the top 20 marginal electorates and consulting Coalition MPs and candidates. Tudge’s office did not respond to Crikey’s requests for comment. He has not spoken about the issue since the auditor-general’s report was released three weeks ago. But current Urban Infrastructure Minister Paul Fletcher has repeatedly stepped up to back the rorting of the Urban Congestion Fund (UCF). Speaking to ABC’s

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