Anne Twomey
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Oct 10, 2026
Anthony WhealyGUEST
What is the process you followed? We've been waiting now for some weeks.
Anthony WhealyGUEST
The government has put out statements, and they're being analyzed by people like Professor Anne Twomey, who's a constitutional law expert.
Luke GrantHOST
Yes.
Anthony WhealyGUEST
And, and she's quite convinced, I think, that, um, that, that they did not follow proper process here.
Tim WebsterHOST
Yeah, 17 past 7:00.
Tim WebsterHOST
In the Australian newspaper yesterday, Professor Anne Twomey was accusing the Albanese government of gray corruption for this grant scheme.
Tim WebsterHOST
It's not just the 6 million awarded to the Marrickville Golf Club, which we've spoken about here at infinitum, but, uh, then we learned there was another, you know, 50 or 60 million, oh, for loos and landscaping and benches around the golf course.
Tim WebsterHOST
So pretty good to be a member of Marrick- Marrickville Golf Club.
7 MINS LATER
Tim WebsterHOST
Thanks a lot.
Anne TwomeyGUEST
Thank you.
Tim WebsterHOST
Professor Anne Twomey, 7:25.
Tim WebsterHOST
Uh, Jeffrey's there for us.
Tom ElliottHOST
We're gonna talk about that again after, uh, 10 o'clock.
Tom ElliottHOST
A constitutional law expert called Anne Twomey from the University of Sydney says that the authorization by the Prime Minister of a $6 million grant to his local golf club, the Marrickville Golf Club in Western Sydney, she says it's, it's gray corruption.
Tom ElliottHOST
Now, I wanna find out exactly what gray corruption means, but I mean, this is the Prime Minister using our money to donate to his local golf club.
Tom ElliottHOST
I mean And you know, even Ben Carroll here, he's suddenly an ardent supporter of airport rail because, you know, a lot of the rail line and the construction will take place in his seat of Niddry.
18 MINS LATER
Tom ElliottHOST
Used to be called pork barreling.
Tom ElliottHOST
Our next guest is Professor Emerita of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney.
Tom ElliottHOST
Anne Twomey, good morning.
Anne TwomeyGUEST
Good morning.
Tom ElliottHOST
Our next guest is Professor Emerita of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney.
Tom ElliottHOST
Anne Twomey, good morning.
Tom ElliottHOST
Good morning.
Tom ElliottHOST
So what exactly is grey corruption?
James MorrowHOST
Well, joining me now to discuss this and a whole lot more is Benzie's Research Center senior fellow, Nick Cater, and former Liberal MP, Nicole Flint.
James MorrowHOST
Wow, pretty big words here from Anne Twomey, and she is a respected professor, but Nick Cater, I'll start with you.
James MorrowHOST
She suggested that if politicians want to make these kinds of local promises, maybe they should stand as local councillors.
Nick CaterGUEST
Well, I think it's a very good idea, actually.
Luke GrantHOST
I mean, wherever you look, there's a-another, another problem for government.
Luke GrantHOST
This time, it comes from, uh, an area that I n-didn't imagine it would ever come from, because in my experience, the University of Sydney Professor Emerita Anne Twomey keeps well away from the politics.
Luke GrantHOST
And she might argue this isn't about the politics, it's about the facts of the matter.
Luke GrantHOST
But the government's been accused of engaging in gray corruption, gray corruption, over a six million dollar grant awarded to the PM's golf club.
Luke GrantHOST
Right.
Luke GrantHOST
Now, it's Anne Twomey who's accused the Albanese government of this over a grant scheme.
Luke GrantHOST
Concerns center on the way projects are selected for funding and whether governments should have the power to decide which organizations are invited to apply for taxpayer money.
Luke GrantHOST
She's told a parliamentary inquiry the rules governing the grant scheme are a farce.
Luke GrantHOST
I mean, wherever you look, there's a, another, another problem for government.
Luke GrantHOST
This time, it comes from, uh, an area that I n- didn't imagine it would ever come from, because in my experience, the University of Sydney Professor Emerita Anne Twomey keeps well away from the politics.
Luke GrantHOST
And she might argue this isn't about the politics, it's about the facts of the matter.
Luke GrantHOST
But the government's been accused of engaging in gray corruption, gray corruption, over a six million dollar grant awarded to the PM's golf club.
Luke GrantHOST
Right.
Luke GrantHOST
Now, it's Anne Twomey who's accused the Albanese government of this over a grant scheme.
Luke GrantHOST
Concerns center on the way projects are selected for funding and whether governments should have the power to decide which organizations are invited to apply for taxpayer money.
Luke GrantHOST
She's told a parliamentary inquiry the rules governing the grant scheme are a farce.
Tim WebsterHOST
Haven't been there for years." Albo, that's not the point The point is the money being given to it.
Tim WebsterHOST
And the constitutional lawyer Anne Twomey, who I've spoken to many times on the air in the past, both here and elsewhere, uh, wrote this: "What is remarkable is that these grants were classified as closed non-competitive." So no one else was asking for the money.
Tim WebsterHOST
The money was just given.
Tim WebsterHOST
So the effect was that the Marrickville Golf Club was granted funds without any assessment of whether it had a greater need for those grants than anybody else.
Chris SpyrouHOST
But now, at a Senate inquiry into an invitation-only grant scheme used to fund projects promised by Labor in the lead up to last year's election, a constitutional law expert has accused Albanese of gray corruption.
Sasha BarbagalloHOST
Yeah, Professor Anne Twomey, who is a University of Sydney professor emerita, has made a submission to the probe, calling the scheme a farce and claiming the government has exercised its powers to favor private interests or political interests over the national interest.
Sasha BarbagalloHOST
She's gone as far as to call the grant a misuse of public money, ridiculing claims by the Prime Minister that he was being a good local member by helping fix stormwater issues on the course, which would send raw sewage spilling over the greens during storms.
Anthony AlbaneseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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