In a media release, a series of interviews and an article in the Sunday Age, the Audit’s Brian Costar has criticised the decision of the federal government to withdraw funding from the Australian Electoral Commission’s Electoral Education Centre in Melbourne. Audit contributor Dean Jaensch wrote about the issue for the Adelaide Advertiser, and the closure was discussed at the Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee’s Estimates hearing on 28 May (see pages 35–41 of the Hansard transcript).