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.

Mr Dutton also used the funds to support grants for two councils — in the lead up to a by-election in a…