Auditor finds the deputy premier dudded the Mountains for a bushfire grant

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Updated February 7 2023 - 9:30am, first published February 2 2023 - 3:15pm

Intervention by the then deputy premier, John Barilaro, in the first bushfire grants program in 2020 excluded the Blue Mountains and all other Labor electorates from any grants, the NSW Auditor-General has found.

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Jennie Curtin

Upper Mountains Correspondent

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