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Female start-up founders fume at Porterâs email stuff-up
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Embattled Industry, Science and Technology Minister Christian Porterâs office has been left scrambling to smooth over a funding bungle that left thousands of Australian female entrepreneurs disappointed when they were told they had successfully applied for government grants, only to receive an email hours later retracting the money.
About 1800 business owners were sent a correction email by the Department of Industry, saying their expression of interest application to the Boosting Female Founders Initiative grant was ultimately unsuccessful, despite them receiving a congratulatory acceptance email from Mr Porterâs department six hours earlier.
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From the moment it was created, the “$500 million National Commuter Car Park Fund” was a rort. And public servants in the Department of Infrastructure treated it that way.
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Crikey reported earlier this week, the fund was part of an Urban Congestion Fund (UCF) established by the Turnbull government in 2018, initially costing $1 billion, with the idea that it would be based on a competitive selection process on publicly available guidelines to choose the most effective projects.
This reflected a key change by Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister: the Coalition abandoned its long-term reluctance about Commonwealth investment in cities. Traditionally, the Coalition had only spent infrastructure funding in regional areas, where it could be pork-barrelled to the advantage of Nationals ministers, who controlled the Transport/Infrastructure portfolio. Turnbull had also heeded the Reserve Bank’s repeated calls for a “pipeline” of infrastructure pr