NSW Labor has been accused of pork-barrelling in a key Sydney seat by offering a $20,000 community grant to a public school's Parents & Citizens Association in exchange for votes.
Retiring Greens MP Jamie Parker, who has comfortably held onto the former Labor seat of Balmain for more than a decade, says the tactic was lamentable.
"Labor has been caught out trying to buy votes for a tax-payer funded political slush fund," he told reporters on Wednesday.
