Sports minister hits back at 'rorts' claims over grants

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Queensland Sports Minister Mick de Brenni has defended his intervention in a sports grant program amid LNP accusations of pork barrelling. 9News

, Mr de Brenni said his intervention in the awarding of grants was to "fix departmental mistakes".

"I simply made sure that the successful applicants were aligned to the government's policy intent," Mr de Brenni told 4BC. "I didn't break the rules when I made those amendments and I'm not going to start breaking the rules now," he said later this afternoon. Mr de Brenni says there was no political bias, that he had the authority to make changes and did so to benefit smaller, underfunded clubs."What was very clear here is, my understanding is, the report found it was mostly consistent across the major parties, there was a differentiation of around one per cent," Ms Palaszczuk said.

"When the auditor-general makes recommendations, my government will implement them ... more record-keeping will happen."

 

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