10.12.2022 - THE NEW DAILY
​Michael Pascoe: Echoes of ‘sports rorts’ as NSW rolls out the pork barrel

​Spreadsheet sleuth Vince O’Grady and his collaborators ran the NSW MSCF grants through the same system they applied to the federal Coalition government’s multi-billion grant corruption. The MSCF is small beer by comparison, but the principles (or lack thereof) remain the same.

17.10.2022 - Michael West Media
Vince O'Grady - ​Judgement day is coming for Sports Rorts, other Coalition grants schemes

​“Sports Rorts” and assorted grants schemes manipulated for political gains by the former Coalition government are not merely corrupt by probably illegal too, writes Vince O’Grady. O’Grady found the political bias persisted not only in Sports allocations but throughout the more than $7bn in grants programs. And that is before even analysing the almost half a trillion in government contracts since 2013

01.10.2022 - THE NEW DAILY
Michael Pascoe: ​Dreyfus puts a fork into pork rorts, for all time, with a few choice words in NACC legislation

With the help of spreadsheet sleuth Vince O’Grady and other researchers, we have been detailing the unethical abuse of multiple schemes and grants ever since the Morrison/McKenzie #sportsrorts hit the fan in 2020.

30.07.2022 - THE NEW DAILY
Michael Pascoe: ​Political coroner finds Coalition deeply and brazenly corrupt

This comes as no surprise to regular readers of The New Daily. Ever since #sportsrorts broke, we have been delving into the corruption of numerous federal grants and funds, assisted by spreadsheet sleuth and blogger Vince O’Grady.

07.05.2022 - THE NEW DAILY
Michael Pascoe: ​There’s a very bad reason rates won’t be rising too high too soon

​The New Daily has been chronicling the government’s grant corruption for two years. Researcher (and Labor Party member) Vince O’Grady seems to be forever coming up with another scheme that’s been abused along political lines.

21.01.2022 - THE NEW DAILY
​Michael Pascoe: Grants corruption rolls on, with bias in bowls too

"For 20 months, The New Daily has been collaborating with spreadsheet sleuth Vince O’Grady and his IT support in harvesting grant data from government websites, from the $4 billion Community Development Grants scandal down to, well, bowls.
Trawling the grants hub found 684 gifts to bowls clubs totalling $17.6 million over the past four year via various grants schemes, rorts and wheezes."

12.01.2022 - THE NEW DAILY
​Michael Pascoe: More of the same in 2021 with community grants corruption

"Repeating the 2020 exercise for the grants published in 2021, TND collaborator and spreadsheet sleuth Vince O’Grady counted 47.7 per cent of the total $372.6 million in CDGs going to Labor electorates last year, 45.4 per cent going to the Coalition and 6.9 per cent to “other”, the independents and minor parties."

03.01.2022 - THE NEW DAILY
​Michael Pascoe: The Great Golf Rort where Labor seats need not apply

"I have been collaborating with spreadsheet sleuth Vince O’Grady for 20 months as we have delved into the many billions of dollars of Commonwealth grants, assisted by a couple of IT colleagues."

17.12.2021 - THE NEW DAILY
Michael Pascoe: "​Morrison confirms election tactics of lie, deny and deflect"

"“How good are sports rorts?” he may as well have shouted, never mind The New Daily’s collaboration with spreadsheet supersleuth Vince O’Grady to fully disclose the politically corrupt nature of those grants."

19.10.2021 - THE NEW DAILY
Michael Pascoe: ​"The opportunity cost of the Pork Party – ‘tens of billions’"

"We have previously reported on the BBRF rorting thanks to spreadsheet sleuth Vince O’Grady. Further information has come to light about Rounds Three and Four thanks to Freedom of Information documents uploaded to the Finance Department’s disclosure log."

12.10.2021 - THE NEW DAILY
Michael Pascoe: ​"Unrepentant, the Coalition pork barrel rolls on with Building Better Regions Fund"

"Spreadsheet sleuth Vince O’Grady analysed the $294 million “infrastructure projects stream” to find funds were allocated according to form – 16 per cent to Labor electorates, 11 per cent to seats held by independents and 73 per cent to Coalition seats."

04.08.2021 - THE NEW DAILY
Michael Pascoe: "​Michael Pascoe: Rorting – do ‘they all do it’?"

"Spreadsheet sleuth Vince O’Grady – a declared Labor Party member – has gone through the detail of the overall RADF spending."

13.07.2021 - The NEW DAILY
Michael Pascoe: ​‘#Carporkrorts’ even worse than they appeared

"The even more lopsided nature of the pork barrelling came to light through government website delving by spreadsheet maestro Vince O’Grady and research analyst Cayte Hehir.
​Mr O’Grady has been a regular source of grant dissection in these columns since #sportsrorts exploded 18 months ago. There’s been plenty to work on."

14.02.2021 - The NEW DAILY
​Michael Pascoe: Scott ‘Stunt’ Morrison says ‘cheese’ as taxpayers pay for his photo ops

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This is a pretty astonishing analysis of government grants by @vogrady2132.

18.01.2021 - The NEW DAILY
​Michael Pascoe: Grants rorts? Wait, there’s more …

"For example, spreadsheet sleuth Vince O’Grady has consolidated 2020’s $158.5 million in Building Better Regions Fund grants from the GrantsConnect site"

12.01.2021 - The NEW DAILY
​Michael Pascoe: Government’s peak corruption scheme scores $400 million in 2020

"That was courtesy of reader Vince O’Grady’s mastery of spreadsheets to mine the GrantsConnect site lists of government grants and to connect the grants to electorates."

28.09.2020 - The NEW DAILY
​Michael Pascoe: Government steps up its multibillion-dollar grants rorting

"Spreadsheet sleuth Vince O’Grady has crunched the numbers declared on the GrantConnect site."

01.06.2020 - MICHAEL WEST MEDIA
​The Rigs are Getting Bigger: Michael Pascoe on Community Development Grants rorts

"Billions of dollars in corrupt pork barrelling can seem a little abstract, so using Vince O’Grady’s spreadsheet analysis"

​25.05.2020 - The NEW DAILY
Michael Pascoe: The grants scandal vastly bigger than #sportsrorts 

"With that likelihood in mind, Excel fiend Vince O’Grady took his spreadsheets to the CDG"

15.04.2013 - Independent Australia
Vince O'Grady: Tony Abbott's Landing Helicopter Crock

"Tony Abbott says the Government has taken $21 billion out of Defence spending and shipyards are in trouble, but is he telling the truth? Investigative reporter Vince O' Grady reports."

02.04.2013 - Independent Australia
Vince O'Grady: ​Ashbygate loose ends

"The LNP want to form Government as soon as possible, but perhaps they should answer some questions about the Ashbygate conspiracy first, says Vince O’Grady."

04.03.2013 - Independent Australia
​Vince O'Grady: ​Ashbygate in depth (Part III): At the end of Mal Brough’s dry gully

"Vince O'Grady wraps up his in-depth series on the lies and dissembling of Mal Brough over Ashbygate, directing more unanswered questions to the evasive candidate."

​03.03.2013 - Independent Australia
​Vince O'Grady: ​Ashbygate in depth (Part II): Further along Mal Brough’s dry gully

"In a recent interview, Mal Brough described his total involvement with James Ashby as five "frivolous" texts; Vince O’Grady's demolishes this arrant fiction through a detailed timeline of Brough's extensive involvement with, not only Ashby, but many other Ashbygate co-conspirators."

​02.03.2013 - Independent Australia
​Vince O'Grady: ​Ashbygate in depth: Mal Brough's dry gully

"In the first part of a three part series, Vince O'Grady shows in forensic detail just how many times Mal Brough has changed his story, or outright lied, about his conspiracy with James Ashby to bring down Peter Slipper."

27.08.2012 - Independent Australia
​Vince O'Grady: ​Trusting the Coalition to deliver "superfast broadband"

"Former telecommunications consultant Vince O’Grady discusses the Coalition’s trustworthiness and the question marks over Malcolm Turnbull’s “superfast broadband” policy."