Cash for Votes
Cathy Wilcox
Various federal grants and funding schemes were likened to ‘pork barrelling’ by the media as reports noted that applications from Coalition-held and marginal seats were more likely to be successful. Labor leader Anthony Albanese’s suggestion that people be paid to get vaccinated against COVID-19 was dubbed an insult, ‘likely to discourage vaccination’.
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