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Peter Dutton defied guidelines to award cash in marginal seat
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Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton defied the guidelines for the $180 million Safer Communities program by granting cash to projects that had failed the criteria for funding, undercutting his public claims about the scheme.
Mr Dutton’s department told him the two projects in the marginal electorate of Braddon “do not represent value for money” because they had scored too poorly under the eligibility criteria, but he awarded the cash anyway.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton approved funding for two projects in a marginal seat before the funding guidelines were available.
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Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton handpicked 53 projects to share in $8.5 million for security cameras and safety lighting ahead of the last federal election, only five of which were in safe Labor seats.
The opposition has asked the Auditor-General to examine the Safer Communities Fund after departmental documents revealed Mr Dutton diverted almost half the total pool of funding away from recommended projects to his handpicked ones in January 2019.
The Home Affairs department warned Mr Dutton he âmay be criticisedâ if he decided to âmake funding decisions that do not reflect the order of meritâ.
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A Home Affairs department briefing to Mr Dutton, released under freedom of information to the ABC, listed the top 70 projects able to be funded with the $17.5 million available.
Peter Dutton slashed funding for highly regarded community safety projects. Then he selected his own list to fund
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Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton overruled his department s recommendations on grant funding for the Safer Communities program.
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Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton personally slashed millions in grant funding from organisations that were strongly recommended by his department to improve community safety, and used the funds to support his own handpicked list that did not follow his department s recommendations.
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The Home Affairs Department recommended funding a list of 70 community safety projects using a merit-based assessment
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