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On Friday, the Commonwealth Auditor-General, Grant Hehir, gave evidence to the Public Accounts and Audit Committee of Parliament that the government’s $6.4 million cut in his budget would mean reduced audits. This was not regrettable news to the Morrison government.
Among its members are MPs who appear to have shown a level of disregard for what were once accepted standards of accountability and probity that can only be described as brazen.
For example, Senator Bridget McKenzie, former sports minister, gave evidence the previous Friday to the Senate committee investigating the sports rorts affair. She took full responsibility for her staff and her own actions in managing the Community Sports Infrastructure Grants Fund. And she was proud of her achievements.
McKenzie, Dutton put democracy at risk with actions that reek of playing politics with public money
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Hamilton Town House will light up blue tonight for Girlguiding s World Thinking Day
Members of the Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Rangers and their volunteer leaders will be celebrating the occasion. (Image: Hamilton Advertiser)
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On this day in Black History.
Feb 22, 1841 Grafton Tyler Brown, lithographer and painter, born
The athlete and boxer Abe Attell , byname the Little Champ was born February 22, 1884, San Francisco, California
– On this day in 1888, legendary painter Horace Pippin was born
Feb 22, 1898
Black postmaster lynched and his wife and three daughters shot and maimed for life in Lake City, S.C.
– On this day in 1911, poet, activist, and social reformer Frances Ellis Watkins Harper died
Robert Smalls died in Beaufort, Texas on February 22, 1915 and is buried there with his family.
Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician, publisher, businessman, and naval pilot. Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, he freed himself, his crew, and their families during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862, and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to
Scouts apologise for misleading jury during inquest into teen s Great Orme death
The hearing was called off in February last year because of an evidence blunder in the case of 16-year-old Benjamin Leonard, who fell 200ft to his death on a scouting trip
Ben Leonard, 16, fell to his death during a scouting trip on the Great Orme
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