After being caught with his pants down over funding irregularities, the Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile has been forced to make a humiliating public apology for his personal attack on the Commonwealth Auditor-General Ian McPhee.When the Auditor-General exposed irregularities in the processes involved in approving grants under the Regional Partnerships Program, Mark Vaile went into overdrive questioning Mr McPhee's independence and professionalism.
Now, he should really come clean and fess up to the unprecedented, large scale pork-barrelling under the program which saw massive amounts injected into marginal Coalition electorates at the expense of equally-deserving Labor electorates.
