Howard's deputy Mark Vaile of AWB infamy adds insult to injury. Not only are he and John Howard totally unrepentant over the rorts the National Audit Office has confirmed in the controversial Regional Partnerships Program, but the Deputy Prime Minister is hinting at political motivation in the timing of release of the report.
Vaile told the ABC: "The Auditor-General has been working on finalising this report for over 12 months now ... We've been expecting it to have been released before this ... Here we are one week from the election''. He suggested the rules for what happened in the "caretaker'' period before the election should be reassessed. "To have an unelected individual who is a statutory office holder making a decision on the release of a report like this and the timing - maybe that needs to be looked at."
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