Utegate
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Utegate
- (informal, Australian politics) A 2009 scandal around the lending of a ute to Australian Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by car dealer John Grant, and subsequent allegations of improper favourable treatment of Grant by the Department of the Treasury.
- 2009 June 22, Phillip Coorey, Annabel Crabb, Sydney Morning Herald:
- The Australian Federal Police revealed this afternoon that the email that sparked the so-called Utegate controversy was faked.