Questions over Andrew Laming’s link to rugby club that won women’s sport grant

The Morrison government will not say whether it was aware of ties between Liberal MP Andrew Laming’s office and a local rugby club before it promised a half-a-million-dollar grant to the club during the 2019 federal election campaign.

The grant to build a new clubhouse for the Southern Bay Cyclones Rugby Union Club in Redland Bay, Queensland, was part of a controversial government program to promote women’s sport…