Bill
Accountability of Grants, Investment Mandates and Use of Public Resources Amendment (End Pork Barrelling) Bill 2024
lapsed, as at 2024-09-10.
- Sponsor
- Helen Haines
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-02-26
- second reading — 2024-02-26
- other — 2024-09-10
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2024-02-26.
This bill would tighten rules around how the federal government gives out grants and uses public money.
It would write key parts of the existing grants guidelines into law, create a new parliamentary committee to oversee grants, and give the Public Service Commissioner new powers to investigate and punish misconduct.
Ministers who approve a grant in their own electorate or against official advice would have to report it, and programs worth more than $100 million would face extra reporting.
- Requires all grant programs to have published merit-based selection criteria and clear guidelines.
- Makes investment mandates disallowable and subject to annual compliance reports to Parliament.
- Gives the Public Service Commissioner power to investigate and impose sanctions for breaches of the resource management code of conduct.
Federal government agencies, corporate Commonwealth entities, ministers, public servants, and the Parliament.
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