The $150 million program, meant to improve female sporting facilities, even more heavily skewed towards Coalition-held marginal seats than the controversial sports grants program it was meant to complement.
The Coalition won each of these highly contested seats except Corangamite, which was one of just two Coalition-held seat to be snatched by Labor.
"No other council in Australia has received such substantial government funding to construct an aquatic facility," she said. "We now know that there is yet another slush fund program used by the Government to pork-barrel seats, and this one is even bigger," he said. "My concern is that election-funding announcements are bypassing the need for evidence-based decision-making in regards to community sport facilities," he said.The $150 million fund, which sets aside $20 million in 2019-20 expanding to $50 million in 2022-23, was budgeted under the infrastructure portfolio.
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