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Senior Victorian public servants hid loss of up to $285m from Covid grants given to ineligible businesses

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Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 02:39
Senior Victorian public servants hid loss of up to $285m from Covid grants given to ineligible businesses
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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 fla...

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