Bureaucrats rubber-stamp 98 per cent of Labor’s invite-only grants
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Research indicates that bureaucrats rarely reject invited bids for community grants based on merit. This has raised questions about the departmental scrutiny applied to hundreds of millions of dollars. These grants are described as politically handpicked and invite-only. In most cases, 98 percent of these requests were approved.
Departmental scrutiny of hundreds of millions of dollars in politically handpicked community grants has been called into question after research revealed bureaucrats almost never reject an invited bid on merit.