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Andrew Brown and Tess Ikonomou

Health grant program not pork-barrelling: Liberals

The auditor-general has delivered a scathing report into a $1.25b program to ease hospital pressure. Photo: AAP

Liberal frontbencher Michaelia Cash has denied a health and hospital grant program from the former Morrison government was pork-barrelling despite a scathing auditor-general report into the scheme.

The report into the administration of the Community Health and Hospitals Program found it was “ineffective and fell short of ethical requirements” and breached legal requirements.

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