Independent senator Nick Xenophon has called on the auditor-general to investigate Australia's failed bid to host the 2022 World Cup amid corruption allegations.
He has written to Ian McPhee requesting an inquiry into the taxpayer-funded $42.25 million bid by Football Federation Australia and an earlier $500,000 payment made to former FIFA executive Jack Warner, who is facing indictment in the US.
"If the FFA got duped by Mr Warner ... how do we know that Australian taxpayers haven't been duped to the tune of $45 million that was given to the FFA as part of the World Cup bid?" he said to reporters in Canberra.
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