ANALYSIS: Can you spot the words that landed Scott Morrison in a sea of political grief?
and pork-barrelling, the Prime Minister argued all the projects were at least"eligible". The Coalition, he insisted, hadn't gone as far as Labor's Ros Kelly with her infamous whiteboard in handing out cash to ineligible projects.
Along the way, no-one seemed to notice the Prime Minister had taken the auditor-general's quote and amended it ever so slightly to suit his own purposes. See if you can spot the difference. Where the auditor-general said,"no applications assessed as ineligible" received money, the Prime Minister said,"every single one of the projects that was approved was eligible". Claims of sports rorts are all over the news. Get up to speed quickly with the year's biggest political scandal — who did what, when, and why people are angry. The difference between the two quotes may seem semantic and most didn't spot it. But the audit office did. After spending 10 months forensically investigating this scheme, officials at the audit office knew plenty of ineligible projects were awarded funding. These officials aren't allowed to give media interviews, nor respond, when the Prime Minister openly rejects the central finding of their report.audit office team took the first opportunity to set the record straightLiberal senator Eric Abetz put the eligibility question to the executive director of the audit office, Brian Boyd."No, Senator", Mr Boyd replied,"that's not what we found."
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