COVID-19 grants paid to 9,000 ineligible Victorian businesses
2 sources·Updated October 15, 2026
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- Guardian Australia·4h agoSenior Victorian public servants hid loss of up to $285m from Covid grants given to ineligible businesses
Whistleblowers applauded as Ibac finds ‘decisions were made to withhold information about the magnitude of the loss’ Senior public servants in one state covered up losses suspected to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars arising from flawed Covid-19 business support…
Read at Guardian Australia → - ABC Just In AU·6h agoCOVID-19 grants paid to 9,000 ineligible Victorian businesses
An IBAC investigation has found senior public officers failed to warn the minister that hundreds of millions of dollars in business support grants were being paid to ineligible businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read at ABC Just In AU →
