Analysis: It’s a pork-barrelled circus in our marginal seats | swrighteconomy
It truly is astounding that all the terrible roads, decrepit playgrounds and poorly serviced health areas just happen to be in a handful of marginal electorates sprinkled around the country.
Trying to sew up more votes, Scott Morrison and the Coalition have promised billions of dollars for key marginal seats since the budget.For instance, money has been poured into the ultra-marginal electorates of Bass and Braddon in Tasmania. It stretches from the substantial to the not so substantial .
Not to be outdone, Labor has promised more than $100 million worth of projects in the same seat including $45,000 on outdoor sun and rain protection for a local high school. Fighting to hold the Liberal Party’s most marginal seat in Victoria, Gladys Liu told her Facebook followers to sign a petition on April 5 to upgrade the local Mirrabooka Reserve.
And Dr Martin did a video to celebrate $180,000 worth of soft fall for a local playground in a seat that was one of the most pork-barrelled at the 2019 election.
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