Out-of-pocket contractors have questioned how the NSW government and Lake Macquarie's economic development body tipped $1 million of taxpayers' money into the city's failed air race.
Lake Macquarie MP Greg Piper said on Friday that the government and Lake Macquarie City Council-funded economic development organisation Dantia needed to explain whether they performed adequate due diligence on Air Race Limited, the United Kingdom company behind the event.
