When Tasmanian Liberal senator Eric Abetz took over the mic at this week’s Senate inquiry into allegations of sports rorts, he asked the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) to confirm the Prime Minister’s well-worn statement — that all grants receiving funding were eligible… Instead, Mr Boyd revealed that 43 per cent of the projects that received funding in the $100 million program were in fact considered “ineligible”.

Has Eric Abetz just accidentally handed Labor its smoking gun on sports rorts?

The Prime Minister is yet to face questions on new eligibility issues surrounding the sports rorts scandal. His office maintains he accurately represented the information he had been provided with.