Documents released include ‘talking points’ prepared for McKenzie to pitch an expansion of the sports grants program from $30m to $100m.Documents released include ‘talking points’ prepared for McKenzie to pitch an expansion of the sports grants program from $30m to $100m.
“With $29.7m, we cannot fulfil key priorities; with $100m, we can achieve at least two priorities for all our targets and marginals,” the talking points said.that the program was targeted at marginal or Coalition target electorates, after McKenzie departed from Sport Australia’s recommendations by effectively conducting a parallel assessment process.
Even with $100m there would be “205 total projects” in marginal and target seats unfunded despite receiving a score above 60% from Sport Australia, it said. Successful projects could be announced in the lead-up to Christmas and into the new year, in time for “cutting ribbons from February 2019 onwards”.“This former adviser’s memo was not used as a basis for my decisions at any stage in the process,” her April 2020 submission said. “The memo was never provided to me or seen by me.”
This document notes the number of applications and number of projects funded, with a column for the “% successful” by both number of projects and value of funding.