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Corruption watchdog coming as car parks drive more questions
The government is promising parliamentary debate on its long-planned corruption watchdog as Labor demands more answers on its car park fund.
- by Katina Curtis and Shane Wright
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Infrastructure
Treasurer promised car park for a train station that soon won’t exist
Josh Frydenberg promised $65m for car parks at four stations in his electorate ahead of the last election, but if they’re ever to be delivered costs will balloon.
- by Shane Wright, Katina Curtis and Chloe Booker
Stopping all marginal seats: A Melbourne guide to the car parks controversy
The controversial $660 million program promised to deliver for commuters around the city. Here’s a guide to where the money was supposed to go and why it’s gone wrong.
- by Shane Wright and Katina Curtis
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Rail
Former judge labels $660 million car park fund ‘corruption’
A leading former Victorian Supreme Court judge says the Commuter Car Park fund meets “any appropriate definition of corruption”.
- by David Crowe and Shane Wright
Car parks program shows country on a ‘corruption slippery slope’
Governance experts say the federal government should toughen its integrity commission to deal with programs such as the Commuter Car Park fund.
- by Shane Wright and Katina Curtis
‘It could never have been built’: Labor pinpoints holes in the pork barrel
There’s not much space around Kananook station and certainly not enough, the federal opposition says, to build the car park the government promised before the last election.
- by Tom Cowie
When 47 car parks, $660 million and one election collide
A battle to provide suburban railway station car parks has left taxpayers with a $660 million bill and precious little extra parking.
- by Shane Wright
Costs blow out on Coalition parking projects funded without full scoping
The Morrison government agreed to spend $42 million on four commuter car parks in a marginal seat in Melbourne’s east before the projects had been fully assessed. Now the costs are blowing out.
- by Farrah Tomazin
‘Really bad practice’: Car park project chosen by Morrison press release
A press release from Scott Morrison was the only official evidence that a car park’s funding was approved under a program the Auditor-General has blasted.
- by Katina Curtis and David Crowe
NSW car park promised in federal fund now slated at $200,000 per space
Two commuter car parks promised to marginal Liberal electorates in the lead-up to the 2019 federal election cost more than four times the recommended benchmark.
- by Tom Rabe
Morrison funded 27 car parks just one day before he called the election
The day before Scott Morrison called the 2019 election, he approved $389 million worth of spending on commuter car parks in the electorates the Coalition was trying to win.
- by David Crowe