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NSW Industrial Relations Minister Sophie Cotsis nominated Earlwood Wanderers Football Club for $15,000 in funding.

These community soccer clubs received funding after donating to Labor MPs’ campaigns

“Doesn’t pass the pub test”: Community sporting groups received $100,000 in funding under controversial scheme after donating to two MPs’ campaigns. 

  • Max Maddison

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AbSec CEO, BlaQ co-founder and former Koori Radio board member John Leha.

Radio station hit with funding ban after boss transfers $200K to debit card

An audit also found $250,000 was “not transparently managed”. The organisation has been blocked from NSW government grants.

  • Amber Schultz
NSW Premier Chris Minns has rejected suggestions his government used grant funding to curry favour with key independents.

Grants scheme used to ‘prop up’ NSW government

The Coalition has accused one of Premier Chris Minns’ senior advisers of lying to parliament.

  • Max Maddison and Michael McGowan
While much of Sydney has a very subdued start to 2022. Party people where not detred by Covid to attend the music festival, Field Day in Sydney's Domain. Attendes had to prove vacination, or get a Rapid antigen test for Covid, show proof of ID, be scanned by a metel detector for weapons and sniffer dogs, sat regualry by people who people ushered off for a more through search for illegal drugs, 1 January 2022.

‘How has that happened?’ Labor challenged over $1m funding to global music festival giant

The Greens are calling for $1 million paid out to the Listen Out and Field Day festivals be returned to taxpayers.

  • Linda Morris
A Herald investigation has raised questions over grant funding directed to the seat of independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich.

‘Source of truth’: The mystery of who drew up a $37m list of promises for every NSW electorate

Labor insists its program to allocate $400,000 to each electorate is an anti-pork-barrelling grants scheme. But questions over how money was spent won’t go away.

  • Michael McGowan and Max Maddison
The government is not going to try to recoup the cash.

Businesses can keep nearly $20 million in mistaken grants

Almost $20 million in grants were wrongly paid to about 2000 commercial landlords and small to medium-sized businesses.

  • Rachel Eddie
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Anthony Albanese, campaigning in Perth on Friday, said the government remained committed to the current GST allocation system.

Carve-up of $95b GST haul a headache for Albanese

The latest carve-up of the GST has hit Queensland’s budget while boosting Victoria’s. But it has also led to new calls for an overhaul of the GST.

  • Shane Wright and Kieran Rooney
Heidi Bradshaw

‘Dirty dancing’ charity boss suspended, hit with new allegations

Heidi Bradshaw has been suspended following allegations she perpetuated a “toxic” workplace and used employee emails to vote for herself in a local hero award.

  • Amber Schultz
Heidi Bradshaw

Lavish parties and lewd behaviour: Charity boss accused over ‘highly sexualised workplace’

Award-winning charity boss Heidi Bradshaw is accused of perpetuating a culture that former staff labelled “vulgar” and “toxic”.

  • Amber Schultz
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and new Labor candidate for Barton Ashvini Ambihaipahar.

Charity that campaigned for PM’s handpicked candidate received $50k grant

Anthony Albanese’s handpicked candidate nominated a charity to receive $50,000. Members of the charity did 32 hours of phone banking for her campaign before the 2023 election.

  • Max Maddison