It was the biggest political scandal of the year. Yet somehow, no one was to blame

Crikey's oral history of the sports rorts saga continues.

Dec 22, 2020

Additional reporting by Else Kennedy, Wing Kuang and Anthony Marsico.

It was one of the most egregious cases of pork-barrelling in Australian political history. Yet after a chaotic year, sports rorts has all but slipped from memory.

This is part two of an oral history of the sports rorts affair, pieced together from first-hand interviews with key participants, contemporaneous accounts and evidence from Senate hearings.

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About the Author

Kishor Napier-Raman

Reporter

Before joining Crikey in 2018, Kishor was an editor at Honi Soit, an intern at The Sydney Morning Herald, and a legal reporter for Justinian. He has degrees in arts and law from the University of Sydney.