Beware pork barrels on the road

There was a suggestion recently in The Australian that the government has been buying votes for the upcoming election by allocating road funding mainly to electorates not held by the opposition Labor party.

Of 89 road grants worth $250 million revealed in the Senate yesterday, 78 are in government or independent electorates. Only 11 are in Labor seats - most of them marginal.
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A total of 22 Liberal electorates were given $119.32 million for 44 projects, six Nationals electorates received $57.24 million for 23 projects and seven Labor seats were awarded $28 million for 11 projects.

Three independent electorates - Calare, Kennedy and New England - all keenly sought by the Government, received $16.61 million for five projects.

The article doesn't actually do the sums to see if Labor actually received less than expected funding based on the proportion of seats held by them in Parliament, so I present that here:



Yep, that looks like a pork barrel.