Labor funneled three-quarters of $560M grants to its own seats
Labor gave three-quarters of a $560 million grant scheme to Labor-held seats, including $6 million to a golf club the PM frequented.
Albanese promised $6 million to Marrickville Golf Club during the 2025 election campaign. Albanese lived nearby, joined Labor events there, and held an honorary membership he had not declared.
A study found three-quarters of the $560 million grant scheme went to Labor-held seats or safe Labor marginals. Marrickville was the only golf club on a list of 220 funded projects nationwide.
Labor's defense: winners fulfill campaign promises, as frontbencher Jason Clare said this week. But six independent MPs won office on voter demand to end this partisan spending.
When the link is this clear, voters lose faith in fairness.
- $6 million
- Grant to Marrickville Golf Club
- $560 million
- Total grant scheme
- $1,100
- Golf club annual fee
- 220
- Projects in scheme
Why it mattersVoters elected independents to stop pork-barrelling. Labor continuing it shows the old guard has not changed.
AustraliaThis fuels the movement for independent MPs and real grant oversight. Australian voters may push harder for politics free of partisan funding games.
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