ANOTHER CONALITION SPORTS RORTS SCANDAL

Australian Federal, State and Local Politics
Forum rules
Don't poop in these threads. This isn't Europe, okay? There are rules here!
Post Reply
User avatar
Redneck
Posts: 6275
Joined: Fri Oct 03, 2014 12:28 pm

ANOTHER CONALITION SPORTS RORTS SCANDAL

Post by Redneck » Fri Feb 07, 2020 9:30 am



Coalition quietly spent another $150m sports grant fund during election campaign

Coalition quietly spent another $150m sports grant fund during election campaign

The Coalition has quietly spent another $150m sports grant fund promised in last year’s budget without opening up the process to public applications.

The $150m female facilities and water safety stream program, announced by the Coalition less than two months before the election, was funded in the 2019 budget for the purpose of female changerooms and swimming pool upgrades.

While there was an expectation among sports clubs that the program would be open for applications in the wake of the sports rorts scandal, the Department of Health has revealed that the $150m fund was all spent during the election campaign.

“The projects funded through the $150 million Female Facilities and Water Safety Stream Program were announced by the Australia Government in 2019,” a spokesperson for the department said.

“The FFWSS Program was not open to applications for grants. The projects were selected as election commitments.

“Projects eligible for funding included those that supported the development of female change room facilities at sporting grounds and community swimming facilities.”

The Department of Health formally advised successful recipients on 23 October 2019 and additional information was requested “as part of standard due diligence that would support contract execution”.

Most of the funded projects will be under way within the next 12 months, the department said.

According to details of grant recipients provided by the Department of Health, 41 projects have successfully secured funding through the program totalling $131m.

[highlight]As with the controversial community sport infrastructure program, projects funded through the scheme were predominantly in Coalition-held seats or those that it was targeting in the election, including the key seats of Braddon in Tasmania, Boothby in South Australia, Gilmore in NSW, Brisbane in Queensland, Corangamite in Victoria, and Pearce and Swan in WA.[/highlight]

The largest single grant was $25m for the new Ellenbrook pool in the attorney general Christian Porter’s marginal seat of Pearce, which was announced three weeks before the election.

In Corangamite, which the Liberal MP Sarah Henderson was attempting to hold on for the Coalition despite it becoming notionally Labor in a redistribution, $20m was pledged from the fund for the Torquay pool and $10m to the Bellarine aquatic centre.

Steve Irons, who is a close ally of the prime minister, Scott Morrison, and was battling to keep his WA seat of Swan in Coalition hands, used the fund to promise $20m to build a new South Perth aquatic centre.

A $500,000 grant for the Broulee surf club in Gilmore was announced by candidate Warren Mundine, who was unable to hold the marginal seat of Gilmore for the Coalition following the departure of Anne Sudmalis.

In a media release just four days before the election, Mundine pledged the $500,000 “to increase the clubhouse footprint and improve amenities for women”.

Details of the new fund come after the Senate moved on Wednesday to set up an inquiry into the controversial $100m community sport infrastructure program, which a scathing auditor general’s report found had been used by the former Nationals minister Bridget McKenzie to target projects in marginal seats, while ignoring the recommendations of Sport Australia.

Morrison has attempted to draw a line under the saga after McKenzie resigned from cabinet and as the deputy Nationals leader on Sunday, but Labor has continued to target the Coalition over the project.

The new deputy Nationals leader, David Littleproud, has conceded the partisan allocation of projects by party representation in marginal seats is not “the best way to do it”, despite Morrison repeatedly defending the program.

The government has suggested it may yet fund clubs that missed out on funding, noting that of the total of $400m in project founding sought, the government had awarded $100m.

“As I said last week, we think this infrastructure is important to local communities,” he said. “I’ll be working with the treasurer as we prepare for this year’s budget to see how we can provide further support for this important infrastructure that brings communities together,” Morrison said on Wednesday.

Why am I not surprised !

Juliar
Posts: 1355
Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:56 am

Re: ANOTHER CONALITION SPORTS RORTS SCANDAL

Post by Juliar » Fri Feb 07, 2020 10:10 am

Reddy is trying to start a LEFTY HATE PIT here just like the one in OZ.

Reddy was inspired by Lefty Bammy and copied his GetUp! FAKE NEWS item from of all places - the Lefty Guardian Propaganda Pamphlet.

Labor and GetUp! are chasing a dead duck now. And everything from the Lefty Guardian is usually fishing and hoping to get some reaction.

And Labor has done the same thing as Frydenburg pointed out in Parliament and made AnAl squirm and lose his voice.

User avatar
Redneck
Posts: 6275
Joined: Fri Oct 03, 2014 12:28 pm

Re: ANOTHER CONALITION SPORTS RORTS SCANDAL

Post by Redneck » Fri Feb 07, 2020 10:12 am

Juliar wrote:
Fri Feb 07, 2020 10:10 am
Reddy is trying to start a LEFTY HATE PIT here just like the one in OZ.

Reddy was inspired by Lefty Bammy and copied his GetUp! FAKE NEWS item from of all places - the Lefty Guardian Propaganda Pamphlet.

Labor and GetUp! are chasing a dead duck now. And everything from the Lefty Guardian is usually fishing and hoping to get some reaction.

And Labor has done the same thing as Frydenburg pointed out in Parliament and made AnAl squirm and lose his voice.
YAWN !!

USUAL CRAP ! :S

Juliar
Posts: 1355
Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:56 am

Re: ANOTHER CONALITION SPORTS RORTS SCANDAL

Post by Juliar » Fri Feb 07, 2020 10:20 am

They don't seem too upset about it.



Community Sport Infrastructure Grants provide boost to local sport
16 January 2020

Minister for Youth and Sport the Hon. Richard Colbeck today visited Deloraine Community Complex where the completion of two new netball courts has been widely welcomed by the local community.

After a wait for more than a decade for new infrastructure, the centre’s netball courts were funded and completed as part of the Federal Government’s Community Sports Infrastructure Grants Program.

The Federal Government between 2018 and 2019 delivered 684 projects by investing more than $100 million into the initiative.

Minister Colbeck said the grants had been vital in the delivery of provisions for grassroots sporting organisations and local communities around the country.

“Better sporting facilities build stronger, healthier communities by promoting physical activity and social connection,” Minister Colbeck said. “These grants enable more people from right across the country to get more active, more often.”

The Deloraine Community Complex secured $50,000 under the program which contributed to the construction of two netball courts and associated facilities including fencing and lights.

The upgrade is expected to provide greater opportunity for growth in local competition.

In all, the Community Sport Infrastructure program delivered 684 projects aimed at supporting upgrades to female change room facilities, club lighting and surface upgrades to ensure safer sporting environments. Minister Colbeck said each successful grant application was

individually assessed by the Australian Sport Commission using criteria including local participation, community need and project design and delivery.

Over 2050 applications totalling nearly $400 million were made to the program.

“The program is supporting the construction of new community infrastructure and upgrading so many sporting facilities to help support local jobs, increase participation in sport and get more Australians moving,” Minister Colbeck said.

https://www.richardcolbeck.com.au/press-releases

Juliar
Posts: 1355
Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:56 am

Re: ANOTHER CONALITION SPORTS RORTS SCANDAL

Post by Juliar » Fri Feb 07, 2020 10:22 am

Good on you ScoMo.



ANAO report into the Community Sport Infrastructure program
15 January 2020 - Minister Richard Colbeck

The Government acknowledges the recommendations of the ANAO performance audit into the Community Sport Infrastructure program and will take action, with Sport Australia, to address the report’s findings.

I welcome Sport Australia’s quick action to address the recommendations. The Government will continue to work with the board and senior management to implement the measures the agency is putting in place to strengthen future grant delivery.

The Federal Government has invested more than $100 million in the Community Sport Infrastructure grant program to deliver 684 projects.

We have seen first-hand the positive impacts that the Community Sport Infrastructure Grant Program has been delivering for so many grassroots sporting organisations and local communities around the country.

The program is supporting the construction of new community infrastructure and upgrading so many sporting facilities to help support local jobs, increase participation in sport and get more Australians moving.

Projects include upgrades to female change room facilities, lighting upgrades for local sporting clubs and surface upgrades to ensure a safer sporting environment.

Over 2,050 applications totalling nearly $400 million were made to the program which has seen:

224 projects funded as part of Round 1;
232 projects funded as part of Round 2; and
228 projects funded as part of Round 3.
As the ANAO report found, no applications assessed as ineligible were awarded grant funding.

Since the program was announced in August 2018, we’ve already seen 245 of the 684 Community Sport Infrastructure projects completed, across all states and territories. These completed CSI projects are valued at $17,958,484.

The Government has also been advised by Sport Australia, that a number of the projects in the Community Sport Infrastructure grant program may have been damaged as a result of recent bushfires.

Sport Australia as a priority will work proactively with the clubs and organisations to assess the number of projects affected and what reconstruction work may be required.

https://www.richardcolbeck.com.au/press-releases

User avatar
The Reboot
Posts: 1500
Joined: Fri Jan 11, 2019 6:05 pm

Re: ANOTHER CONALITION SPORTS RORTS SCANDAL

Post by The Reboot » Fri Feb 07, 2020 3:25 pm

That's all well and good, but these grants are being used to win votes. I suppose that's no surprise, when both parties are full of dropkicks. They need to bribe the public to get into power. :rofl

User avatar
Redneck
Posts: 6275
Joined: Fri Oct 03, 2014 12:28 pm

Re: ANOTHER CONALITION SPORTS RORTS SCANDAL

Post by Redneck » Fri Feb 07, 2020 3:52 pm

The Reboot wrote:
Fri Feb 07, 2020 3:25 pm
That's all well and good, but these grants are being used to win votes. I suppose that's no surprise, when both parties are full of dropkicks. They need to bribe the public to get into power. :rofl
The secret is not to get caught and this mob have been busted big time !

I bet this has take the taken the big laugh off horse face McKenzie!

:rofl

User avatar
The Reboot
Posts: 1500
Joined: Fri Jan 11, 2019 6:05 pm

Re: ANOTHER CONALITION SPORTS RORTS SCANDAL

Post by The Reboot » Fri Feb 07, 2020 4:29 pm

Redneck wrote:
Fri Feb 07, 2020 3:52 pm
The Reboot wrote:
Fri Feb 07, 2020 3:25 pm
That's all well and good, but these grants are being used to win votes. I suppose that's no surprise, when both parties are full of dropkicks. They need to bribe the public to get into power. :rofl
The secret is not to get caught and this mob have been busted big time !

I bet this has take the taken the big laugh off horse face McKenzie!

:rofl
I've noticed the Libs do everything they can to cover up what they're doing. Likely at the expense of the taxpayer, seeing as they are dole bludgers with fancy titles.

Juliar
Posts: 1355
Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:56 am

Re: ANOTHER CONALITION SPORTS RORTS SCANDAL

Post by Juliar » Fri Feb 07, 2020 5:33 pm

Whereas the Greeny controlled Labor Party just go ahead and do it without a care in the world.

Frydenberg put AnAl on toast in parliament and shook him so bad AnAl lost his voice all over his dirty dealings 11 years back when the Greeny controlled Labor Party was wrecking Australia and trying to buy votes.

User avatar
The Reboot
Posts: 1500
Joined: Fri Jan 11, 2019 6:05 pm

Re: ANOTHER CONALITION SPORTS RORTS SCANDAL

Post by The Reboot » Fri Feb 07, 2020 5:48 pm

Juliar wrote:
Fri Feb 07, 2020 5:33 pm
Whereas the Greeny controlled Labor Party just go ahead and do it without a care in the world.

Frydenberg put AnAl on toast in parliament and shook him so bad AnAl lost his voice all over his dirty dealings 11 years back when the Greeny controlled Labor Party was wrecking Australia and trying to buy votes.
True. The Labor Party were far more transparent in their dealings back in the day, which lead to them being ousted. What idiots. For them, honesty wasn't the best policy, however, the Libs seem to have learned from that and cover their shit up. Does it make it any better, though? Not really. Slimeballs exist in both parties. The Libs are just smarter about it.

Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 65 guests