Dubious grants and rubbery criteria keep political tool claims alive Case studies If your agency’s grants program had few quality applications, a surplus of funds, and was widely seen as a political tool, what would you do?
Safer streets? Audit adds meat to pork-barrelling accusations June 9, 2015 By Stephen Easton News Back in August last year, political historian Rob Carr suggested the federal government’s Safer Streets program was nothing more than pork-barrelling in electorates held by