Matt Canavan faces conflict-of-interest inquiry over $20m club loan | CroweDM
The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility, or NAIF, is a key agency within Senator Canavan’s portfolio and was used last year to fund a multi-use training centre at the club.
The loan was approved by the board members of the NAIF last November but was sent to Senator Canavan in the form of a “proposal notice” that required his consideration for 21 days under federal legislation.The inquiry into the loan raises the prospect that Senator Canavan may remain outside the ministry whatever the outcome of the Nationals leadership ballot.
who stood down because she had not disclosed her membership of a gun club when the club received money from the sports funding program she oversaw as ministerSenator Canavan said he did not think he had breached ministerial standards because he held a membership to a different organisation to the one that had sought the loan.
"I currently have a supporters membership with the Townsville Cowboys which entitles me to membership of the Cowboys Leagues Club. This is a membership I have not previously declared," Senator Canavan said in a statement.
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