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A few days and one Sydney outbreak ago, I was in Canberra with our political reporter Kishor Napier-Raman. With the parliamentary winter recess coming there was a palpable sense of relief in government circles that things were going OK not spectacular, but OK.
How quickly things change. Barnaby blows up the Nationals and unsettles the Coalition; the Australian National Audit Office exposes a rort of eye-watering proportions; and the prime minister starts to appear very vulnerable on the vaccine rollout and quarantine issues.
Crikey has been highlighting this latter point for months now, and this past week the PM’s state allies and the news media have caught on: the PM is getting lost in his own spin.
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It found 87% of the projects were located in 23 Coalition-held seats or six target seats where Coalition MPs and candidates were consulted about project selection.
Labor will use the estimates committee to examine project spreadsheets referred to in the ANAO report. The audit found the office of the then-urban infrastructure minister, Alan Tudge, asked to add potential projects and a column to the spreadsheets for the government to set their relative priority.
“The minister’s office advised that it would then go through the spreadsheets with the prime minister’s office and the deputy prime minister’s office, ahead of a related meeting between the minister for urban infrastructure and the prime minister,” the ANAO said in its report.
Labor and crossbench senators call for hearing into $600m car park rorts crikey.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from crikey.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.