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Bridget McKenzie insists she’s ‘proud’ of sports grants program but accepts full responsibility for its failings
Bridget McKenzie has defended a notorious sports grants program that cost her her ministerial career and insisted all decisions were her responsibility, not the Prime Minister’s.
Key points:
- Bridget McKenzie fronts a Senate inquiry into sports grants more than a year after losing her position as minister
- She rejects the Prime Minister’s Office had any involvement in changing projects she approved
- Senator McKenzie says she “assumes” someone in her office made changes without her knowing
An auditor-general’s report found marginal and targeted seats had been favoured to receive funding through the $100 million Community Sports Infrastructure Grant program in the lead-up to the 2019 election.
Senator McKenzie was the sports minister who oversaw…
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