Coalition scraps $65m spend on four car parks in Josh Frydenberg’s electorate

In a statement, Josh Frydenberg said the federal government had ‘decided not to proceed with funding for the proposed car parks’ in his electorate of Kooyong. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The Morrison government has junked $65m of spending on four commuter car parks it promised to build in the electorate of the treasurer, Josh Frydenberg.

Kooyong in Victoria was to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the $660m commuter car park projects which the Australian National Audit Office found were hand-picked by the government on the advice of its MPs and candidates in a process that “was not demonstrably merit-based”.