The former public servant who lifted the lid on the Barnett Government’s sloppy Royalties for Regions program says the Cook Government’s Burswood racetrack reminds him of some of the botched projects under that same scheme he scrutinised seven years ago.

John Langoulant, WA’s recent agent-general to London, under treasurer and the man former premier Mark McGowan selected to probe major Barnett government projects in 2017, has delivered a scathing assessment of the racetrack, linking it to the Royalties for Regions bungles he unearthed.

“Well, if you read my inquiry report, which I did for the McGowan government, this project has got the cart well in front of the horse. There’s no business case,” Langoulant told this masthead.

“This project reminds me of being one of the Royalties for Re

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