Labor is ramping up its calls for Bridget McKenzie to be sacked from the government ministry as federal politicians prepare for the first sitting week of the year.
Federal Labor frontbencher Jason Clare is astonished Bridget McKenzie still has a job in the Morrison government's ministry, saying the prime minister has got all the information to act now on the so-called sports rorts scandal."There are more smoking guns here than a Clint Eastwood movie.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he hasn't received advice from Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet secretary Philip Gaetjens after ordering him to investigate the scheme. Mr Gaetjens is also looking into a $36,000 grant the former sports minister awarded to a Victorian shooting club of which she is a member.Since Mr Morrison ordered his department secretary to look into the handling of the program."Think about this - Bronwyn Bishop got sacked for a $5000 helicopter ride. This is $100 million of taxpayers' money, and the prime minister still hasn't acted."Liberal MP Jason Falinski expects Mr Gaetjens to present his report sometime this weekend.
The prime minister insists all projects that received grants were eligible and claims the program was not about saving the coalition at the election. Mr Morrison told the National Press Club this week his role was only to relay representations he had received.
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