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Wide Bay MP Llew O Brien has defended the practice of ministers stepping in on grant funding decisions, labelling it a bulwark against bureaucracy. His comments follow revelations more than one third of projects announced in one round of the federal government s Building Better Regions fund were approved despite not being recommended by the department. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and reported on by the ABC reveal 112 of the 330 projects approved for the third round of the program were given the green light due to intervention by Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack and an unnamed group of government ministers.