Jeremy Cordeaux is in the garage with Pete and Gary, and starts with the delightfully absurd before the genuinely infuriating. Fish on treadmills and gambling pigeons, the kind of research that makes you wonder where the money comes from and who signs it off, give way to a far bigger question about how public money gets spent.

The main event is a $500 million grants scandal that Jeremy says nobody will stop, where around 75 per cent of the funding flowed to Labor seats. He makes the case that grants programs have become a way of buying favour with taxpayers' own money, and asks why the watchdogs keep looking the other way while the same pattern repeats.

Along the way, his thoughts on accountability, the difference between governing and campaigning, and why he keeps coming back to these numbers. All that, your calls, and his look back at this day in history.

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