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.

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…