澳大利亚最著名的宪法学者安妮·图米（Anne Twomey）指出，总理阿尔巴尼斯向当地的马里克维尔高尔夫俱乐部（Marrickville Golf Club）拨款600万澳元属于“灰色腐败”，在宪法层面上，这项拨款计划的早期设计是“无效的”。
在2025年大选背景下，阿尔巴尼斯承诺向其选区内的马里克维尔高尔夫俱乐部提供600万澳元拨款，但未披露自己拥有该俱乐部的荣誉会员身份。
在这一消息曝光后，阿尔巴尼斯表示，他并不知道自己被授予了荣誉会员身份，而且“很多很多年”没有去过该俱乐部的会所了。
但澳洲人报随后披露，阿尔巴尼斯与该俱乐部有着长期往来。2019年，在支持保留该球场的一次活动中，他还曾公开表示：‘我需要说明一下自己的利益关系……几十年来我一直来这里，也一直使用这家俱乐部。’”
在议会针对该拨款计划进行的调查中，悉尼大学荣休教授安妮·图米提交了一份措辞严厉的意见书，表示拨款规则简直是一场“闹剧”，并建议政客们“补习一下联邦制和诚信方面的课程”。
阿尔巴尼斯此前曾称赞图米教授“备受尊敬”，是“澳大利亚宪法学领域的顶尖学者”，并任命她加入宪法专家组，就“原住民议会之声”（Indigenous Voice to Parliament）的设计提供建议。
在这次提交给议会委员会的意见书中，图米教授严厉抨击了这项计划，称其设计“别有用心……旨在营造一种诚信和合规的公众形象，同时利用公共资金进行政治恩惠输送和利益交换，这违背了公共利益”。
她将针对马里克维尔高尔夫俱乐部的这类拨款比作“灰色腐败”——这一概念是由阿尔巴尼斯政府任命的生产力委员会专员丹妮尔·伍德（Danielle Wood）提出的。图米表示：“如果联邦政客想通过承诺在选区内兴建游泳池、高尔夫俱乐部和社区中心来赢得选举，那他们就需要补上联邦制和诚信方面的课。如果他们想提供地方性设施，就应该去竞选地方议员。”
“联邦政客不应就具体的本地项目做出竞选承诺，也不应出于政治私利而非公共利益来承诺动用公共资金。
“不，这不仅仅关乎‘是否为一名优秀的选区议员’的问题，这涉及的是一种‘灰色腐败’，以及以牺牲公众利益为代价滥用公共资金的行为。”
她甚至援引了工党资深议员安德鲁·利（Andrew Leigh）关于前莫里森政府时期所谓“体育拨款丑闻”（sports rorts scandal）的研究：这种“滥用公共资金的行为会引发对政府的不信任，助长腐败……浪费公共资源，而且从各方面来看，甚至无法达到在选举中争取选票的目的”。
“与其提出那些所谓的‘诚信’主张，最终却制定出目前这样不完善的《联邦拨款规则与原则》，不如真正实施一套以诚信为基础的政策。这样的政策或许反而更能赢得选票。” 图米写道。
BREAKING: ALBO CAUGHT IN $6M GOLF CLUB LIE – Professor Torches Labor’s “Grey Corruption”
Anthony Albanese went to the election promising “integrity,” but his government has just been hit with a massive “grey corruption” scandal, and the details are damning.
Australia’s most prominent constitutional law scholar, University of Sydney Professor Emerita Anne Twomey, just absolutely torched the Albanese government in a searing parliamentary submission.
Her verdict? The government’s grants scheme is a “farce” deliberately designed to disguise political patronage and the grant of favours using your taxpayer dollars.
Look at the blatant hypocrisy on display:
Albanese promised a cool $6 million of public money to his own local golf club (Marrickville Golf Club) during the 2025 election.
He failed to declare he held an honorary membership there. When caught out, Albo claimed he had no idea and hadn’t been to the clubhouse “for many, many years”
The Australian exposed this immediately, unearthing video footage of Albanese at the club in 2019 explicitly stating: “I declare an interest, I have been coming here for decades and using this club”
Twomey didn’t hold back, stating: “No, this is not about ‘being a good local Member’. It is about indulging in grey corruption and the misuse of public money at the public’s expense”
She even noted that the scheme’s earlier design was outright constitutionally invalid, mockingly suggesting that if these federal politicians want to obsess over local swimming pools and golf courses, they should quit and run for local council instead.
Even worse for Labor? Twomey weaponised past research by Labor’s own Assistant Minister, Andrew Leigh, to prove that this type of pork barrelling actively destroys public trust and wastes state resources.
Labor weaponised “sports rorts” to win government, only to turn around and build a system of faux integrityto fund Albo’s weekend golf hangs.
Australians are struggling through a cost
of living crisis, yet millions are being funneled into the PM’s backyard under a broken, corrupt system.Absolute disgrace.
He must resign.
— Ryan Dally (@Ryandally08) October 7, 2026
