Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

That is a very good question, Senator Grogan, and it's a reminder of just how many reports we've seen into the poor management of taxpayers' money by those opposite. The recently released National Audit Office report on the Community Health and Hospitals Program lays bare the rorts and mismanagement of the Morrison government, and it is scathing—$2 billion of taxpayer funding used as a slush fund by those opposite, without regard for proper process or good governance. As the report makes clear, the former government announced so many projects without assessment or guidance and at such speed the department was forced to monitor the media to know which projects had been selected. Seriously! Under their government, announcement was actually delivery—all they had to do was put out the press release! They did it so fast that the department was forced to look to the media to understand what was occurring. (Time expired)