{"id":6520,"date":"2020-05-15T01:14:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T01:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6520"},"modified":"2020-05-15T01:14:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T01:14:44","slug":"greens-introduce-level-playing-field-bill-to-correct-sports-rorts-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/15\/greens-introduce-level-playing-field-bill-to-correct-sports-rorts-injustice\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens introduce Level Playing Field Bill to correct sports rorts injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today the Greens will introduce a bill to empower Sport Australia to fund the sports clubs whose applications they recommended under the Community Sport Infrastructure Grant Program, but were not funded by then-Minister McKenzie.
\nThe Australian Sports Commission Amendment (Ensuring a Level Playing Field) Bill 2020 will correct the injustice of the Coalitions sports rorts scheme.
\nSenator Janet Rice, Greens spokesperson for Sport said:<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe sports rorts scandal isn\u2019t over. While the Prime Minister is trying his best to duck and weave about his role in this saga, there are still hundreds of sports clubs around Australia who deserved funding but haven\u2019t received a cent.
\n\u201cThe clubs that were recommended for funding by Sports Australia were robbed so that the Coalition could repurpose tax-payer money as a slush fund to buy elections. The Greens Level Playing Field Bill will correct this injustice for those community sports clubs.
\n\u201cMany of the sports clubs have lost trust in government and felt utterly cheated by the Coalition\u2019s corrupt process.
\n\u201cThis Bill won\u2019t fix the Coalition\u2019s failure of transparency or their active subversion of our democracy. But it will make a real difference to these clubs and communities.
\n\u201cDuring the COVID-19 crisis, sports clubs are now in more need of support. Most of the projects are shovel-ready, and this Bill will benefit these community sports groups by providing much-needed investment stimulus in the face of the pandemic.\u201d
\n\u201cThe Senate inquiry into the Administration of Sports Grants received answers yesterday that showed the Minister lacked independent authority to issue grants, instead \u2018piggybacking\u2019 on Sport Australia\u2019s authority to do so. My Bill ensures that the Sports Minister would not have the power to direct the Commission on this new round of funding.
\n\u201cAs the Deputy Chair of the inquiry, I am eager to hear from Senator McKenzie. I\u00a0 urge her to accept the invitation to appear before the committee in a hearing next month.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today the Greens will introduce a bill to empower Sport Australia to fund the sports clubs whose applications they recommended under the Community Sport Infrastructure Grant Program, but were not funded by then-Minister McKenzie. The Australian Sports Commission Amendment (Ensuring a Level Playing Field) Bill 2020 will correct the injustice of the Coalitions sports rorts … Continue reading “Greens introduce Level Playing Field Bill to correct sports rorts injustice”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}