The trouble-plagued Local Small Commitment Allocation program will be audited by the NSW auditor-general and face an upper house inquiry.
The NSW Labor government’s controversial community grant scheme will be put under the microscope by the state’s auditor-general as pressure intensifies over the administration of the $37.2 million fund.
The grant program was announced by Labor ahead of the 2023 state election and gave each Labor MP and candidate in the state’s 93 seats the discretion to nominate projects for $400,000 of funding.undertaken by Special Minister of State John Graham’s office in October last year found two projects worth more than $100,000 had “unacceptable” conflict of interest concerns, while a further 28 were identified as having a “moderate probity risk”.
The government has defended the program, contrasting the scheme against previous Coalition grant schemes including $250 million for local councils and another recovery fund for victims of the Black Summer bushfires. Opposition Leader Mark Speakman accused the government of hypocrisy, saying they were claiming they would return integrity to politics while “running a scheme that fails even their own standards”.
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