Friday,
10 May 2024
Community and experts back Haines’ push to end pork barrelling

INDEPENDENT Federal MP for Indi Helen Haines hosted an interactive community forum on March 6 as part of a campaign to End Pork Barrelling.

Pork barrelling is the practise used by major political parties to direct taxpayer money to projects in marginal electorates to win votes, without regard to evidence of the project’s merit.

More than 120 people gathered at The Cube in Wodonga and more than 1...

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