Queensland's Sports Minister Mick de Brenni has defended his intervention in a sports grant program and denied accusations of pork barrelling.An auditor-general report found Mick de Brenni overruled his own department's advice 33 timesOpposition Leader Deb Frecklington described the controversy as "blatant pork barrelling"
Speaking to ABC Radio Brisbane, Mr de Brenni said he did not recommend one club because it was incorrectly listed as not having women's teams when it in fact did. The minister said more eligible clubs across the state were able to access funding as a result of these interventions."But in that small number of cases that they don't, it's my responsibility to make sure that those errors are corrected."
"The Premier needs to immediately explain why 33 grants were approved by her sports minister against the expert advice of her department," Ms Frecklington said. Mr de Brenni denied some electorates were favoured over others and said the changes were made to only 1 per cent of all grants recommended for approval.
Biased headline.
So - I look forward to you reporting on the federal sportsrorts fiasco!?! auspol
All he needs to do to show he wasn’t pork barreling is release the documents.......but you can bet your last dollar he won’t. More of QldLabour’s corrupt tactics & this is only what we know about todate
Porky pig standing there... in his big fat barrel! AnnastaciaMP is in on it too! VoteHerOut qldpol
Seems really hard for anyone associated with the LNP to take the high ground on porkbarrelling in sporting funding.
Here's a shorter, more concise version of your headline. 'Minister finds error. Minister fixes error.'
What exactly is the news here? That the Minister actually took responsibility for his position and looked into all proposals?
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