Before he was voted out, the former Prime Minister Scott Morrison received a pitch from the Governor-General David Hurley: the taxpayer should fund a foundation for ‘future Australian leaders’.
We don’t know much about the merits of the program, who would get selected and what kind of training they would get – but it was promised the funding.
Now, with the secret ministries saga still hanging over Canberra, pressure is mounting to investigate whether there was enough transparency in the process of funding this mysterious leadership training program.
Today, chief political correspondent at The Saturday Paper Karen Middleton, on Scott Morrison’s secretive $18 million leadership grant.
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Guest: Chief political correspondent at The Saturday Paper, Karen Middleton
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