Political expenses
Hanson billed taxpayers $9000 for charter flight to opening of Rinehart-funded building
The Queensland senator defended her attendance at the Victorian event celebrating the contribution from Australia’s richest person.
- Brittany Busch
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Sarah Hanson-Young will stop charging taxpayers for lobbyist husband’s travel
The Greens MP said she had acted in good faith, but that claiming the entitlement wasn’t worth the stress.
- Brittany Busch
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Hanson fails to declare interests including company tied to ‘anti-woke’ movie
The Queensland senator, whose One Nation party is riding high in the polls, has undeclared involvement in three companies.
- Patrick Begley
Senior politicians to be stripped of uncapped family flights after expenses scandal
A review into MP entitlements reveals most do not regularly fly their families around the country, but some high-profile claims from senior politicians has led to the perks being curtailed.
- Brittany Busch
Greens senator’s lobbyist husband gets free pass on $50k of taxpayer-funded flights
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s husband Ben Oquist works for a high-powered lobbying firm but taxpayers paid for his flights to work in Canberra.
- Brittany Busch
The other travel perk politicians pocket when they go to Canberra
Senator Michaelia Cash has claimed $123,978 over 40 months, or more than $3000 a month, to stay in a home she owns in the nation’s capital.
- Brittany Busch and Nigel Gladstone
MPs’ family travel to be limited to economy class after expenses saga
Anthony Albanese said he advised family travel should also be limited to Canberra or an MP’s electorate – aside from special circumstances – after an expenses scandal engulfed his government.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
Senior Coalition MPs claim $10,000 expenses at time of Liberal fundraiser
The trio have said they were attending parliamentary business when they travelled to Sydney in August.
- Mike Foley and Nick Newling
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- Michelle Rowland
Anthony Albanese to cauterise MPs’ expenses furore as Michelle Rowland moves to repay part of family trip
A fortnight into the furore over politicians’ travel, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland will repay some of a $22,000 trip to Perth.
- Shane Wright
Coalition accuses PM of lying over travel expenses
The opposition on Saturday claimed Albanese was choosing not to change the rules after it was revealed one of his ministers had already done so this year.
- Brittany Busch