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Bushfire Rorts: excess grants for sky-divers but no toilets for firefighters
Michael West Media has received a copy of the original grant application written by the Kempsey Shire Council for its Macleay Valley Skydiving Adventure Park project, which was approved in Deputy Premier John Barilaro’s pork-barrelling scheme, the Bushfire Local Economy Recovery fund (BLER).
Grants for the Adventure Park, originally proposed in July 2019 for the Growing Local Economies fund administered by the NSW government, were approved late last year through the BLER with the NSW government tipping in $11 million for the project.
The proposal for Macleay Valley Adventure Park, intended to act as a ‘game-changer’ project to bring in sports and adventure tourism business to NSW’s mid-north coast, had originally only sought…
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