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Pork-barrelling is unfair and wasteful. Here’s a plan to end it

  • Written by Kate Griffiths, Deputy Program Director, Grattan Institute
Pork-barrelling is unfair and wasteful. Here’s a plan to end itThe Coalition’s carpark announcements before the 2019 election are among the best-known cases of pork-barrellingShutterstock

From sports rorts to regional slush funds and commuter carparks, it’s been one scandal after another in Australian politics in recent years. But what can we actually do to stop politicians pork-barrelling?

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