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Peter Dutton slashed funding for highly regarded community safety projects. Then he selected his own list to fund
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton personally slashed millions in grant funding from organisations that were strongly recommended by his department to improve community safety, and used the funds to support his own handpicked list that did not follow his department’s recommendations.
Key points:
- The Home Affairs Department recommended funding a list of 70 community safety projects using a merit-based assessment
- Peter Dutton reduced the funding for 19 of the highest-scoring applications and redirected the funding to projects of his choice
- The funding guidelines state the minister can override the department’s merit-based assessments
Mr Dutton also used the funds to support grants for two councils — in the lead up to a by-election in a…
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