THIRD COALITION RORTS SCANDAL

[brian ross]

Bridget McKenzie was told to seek Scott Morrison's 'authority' for sports grants program

[Juliar]

The dreary dearie is getting excited over the farcical sports rorts fiasco.

Labor pushing this trivial rubbish is seen by the voters as just trying to sabotage the recovery of Australia. A certain votes loser.

But now cunning ScoMo has pulled the rug from under slow bumbling fumbling stumbling AnAl.


Sports rorts funding could escape constitutional challenge if rebooted as coronavirus stimulus
Submission to Senate inquiry argues commonwealth now has authority to give grants due to Covid-19 crisis
Paul Karp Mon 4 May 2020 17.14 AEST Last modified on Mon 4 May 2020 17.38 AEST

Bridget McKenzie’s appearance before Senate inquiry into sports grants has been delayed due to coronavirus outbreak, but now a submission to the inquiry says grants could be repurposed as economic stimulus. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The troubled community sport infrastructure grant program could be saved from constitutional challenge by being rebooted as a stimulus program to combat the Covid-19 economic contraction, a constitutional academic has argued.

In a submission to the sports rorts Senate inquiry adjunct professor Gary Rumble argued that, despite warnings to the contrary, in “the current economic crisis there is no doubt that it is within commonwealth constitutional power to fund such activities”.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... s-stimulus