Anyone watching can see sports “rorts” is a gripping political story. There is pork barrelling, a gritted-teeth ministerial resignation, which in part triggered a major eruption in the National party, and a rolling effort by the prime minister to inoculate himself from the fallout of the government’s failure to administer the program through the lens of public interest.
But as well as the drama, there are questions of substance that remain comprehensively unanswered despite this mess spanning a couple of months. The question I’ve been asking about sports grants since the end of January is a foundational one: when it comes to this expenditure, did our government act lawfully?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/07/sports-rorts-changes-everything-its-time-for-a-federal-icac
