Why Peter Dutton has questions to answer over grants
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February 11, 2021 6.31pm
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Liberal ministers talked a big game when they took power in September 2013 and promised to toughen the test on how they would spend taxpayers’ cash. Weeks after being sworn in, Tony Abbott and his cabinet halted about $3 billion in annual grants while they checked where the money was going.
No response: the Minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton.
Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
“We have started a process of scrutinising more rigorously all of the discretionary grants spending across government,” said Mathias Cormann, finance minister at the time. He booked an immediate saving of $975 million.
Peter Dutton s office fast-tracked one-off grant proposal days after donation given to support him
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Peter Dutton awarded a one-off grant to the National Retail Association.
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Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton s office fast-tracked a one-off $880,000 grant proposal to a retail association eight days after it made a $1,500 political donation to the Queensland Liberal National Party at an event Mr Dutton attended for the purpose of personally supporting him.
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The National Retail Association (NRA) made a $1,500 donation to the Queensland LNP, saying it was to support
Peter Dutton
One week later Mr Dutton asked that an application by the NRA for a funding grant be considered sooner
Brisbane economy bouncing back after coronavirus lockdown, council data reveals
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foot traffic is returning to the CBD, currently at 58 per cent of its normal capacity.
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The Brisbane economy has started to bounce back from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, with retail spending in the 2020 November-to-December period one of the biggest in a decade, new data released by the Brisbane City Council shows.
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Foot traffic peaked over the Christmas period, with people returning to Brisbane s CBD to shop
Job numbers are also on the rise and on track to recover to pre-pandemic levels by March 2022