Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

By the way, I do not have $3.3 million, but if I did it would be another story. Two of the projects were not recommended for funding by departmental officials. In February 2004, former Prime Minister John Howard announced an $845,000 grant to the Peel Region Tourist Railway, four months before an application was received by the department. This is gross misadministration.