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 Who is spending YOUR MONEY AUSTRALIA and how? It's certainly not going to the ABC or a Federal ICAC that's for sure.

Almost half of $60.2bn in federal government grants awarded over the past four years did not go through a competitive open tender process, a new report on grant spending has found.

 $25bn in Coalition grants made through closed process with no competitors, report finds | Australia news | The Guardian

The billions splurged on the form of appropriation euphemistically called “pork barrelling” makes headlines. What we don’t generally see is the disheartening flipside – the “opportunity cost” of needs unmet because of politicians’ preferences.

Michael Pascoe: The opportunity cost of the Pork Party – ‘tens of billions’

The Infrastructure Department was unable to tell the federal government whether its plans to spend almost $400 million on car parks at suburban railway stations had merit or could even be built just days before Prime Minister Scott Morrison signed off on the promises.

 Commuter car park grants: Internal documents show department was unsure if projects had merit days before Scott Morrison sign-off