Our submission on sports rorts

Originally posted on 3 March 2020 by Lyn Allison

The Senate Committee inquiring into the administration of Sports Grants has accepted our submission and this is now public here:

Submission to Senate Select Committee on Sports Grants [DOWNLOAD]

In addition to the use of grants for political advantage, we pointed out the policy failure in health and wellbeing terms, of giving grants to bodies like wealthy golf clubs.

We also recommended the Parliament adopt a National Integrity System, part of which would be a National Integrity Commission with proper investigative powers, as recommended by the Accountability Round Table