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Nationals backbencher David Gillespie has dismissed damning evidence about a sports grants scheme as a mere “technicality”.
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An eminent legal expert has suggested the Morrison government’s controversial sports grants program may be unconstitutional.
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The Auditor-General has criticised a series of errors in the administration of a $200 million national taxpayer grants program for regional businesses, including members of an Upper Spencer Gulf approvals committee signing forms meant for North Queensland.
The Auditor-General has questioned the probity of SA Health’s appointing KordaMentha to oversee the finances of Adelaide’s largest hospitals.
Salaries and wages were the most significant factor in a $467 million forecast blowout in SA Health’s budget last financial year, the Auditor-General says.
The Auditor-General says he will inquire into the State Government’s “same day” approval of a $750,000 grant to fund an advertising campaign against the Federal Government in the lead up to last year’s federal election.
South Australian councils will consider handing their audits to the state’s Auditor-General after a report found concerns in the sector that audits of local government by lower-paid private contractors were sometimes inconsistent and of questionable quality.
