US EditionCoalition Accuses PM of Lying over Travel Expenses
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has requested advice from the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority on MPs' travel perks after multiple ministers self-referred for expense reviews.
- On Friday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese asked the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority for advice on whether taxpayer-funded perks should change and said he would take on their recommendations.
- Earlier this week, Anika Wells referred her travel claims to the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority after a $95,000 airfare to New York triggered the entitlements furore.
- Reporting showed that after 10 days of headlines about Federal ministers and MPs using travel entitlements, including family members’ airfares and Commonwealth cars and drivers left idling at major sporting events, claims were highlighted where official duties were the 'dominant purpose'.
- The watchdog can audit ministers by checking calendars and metadata, with Attorney-General Michelle Rowland referring expenses as the probe could prompt legislative or regulatory reform.
- James Paterson, Opposition finance spokesman, accused the prime minister of lying and noted Don Farrell made changes this year easing claims; Sussan Ley, Opposition Leader, said, `We stand ready in a bipartisan sense, I'm working through summer.
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'It's outrageous': Pressure grows for Albanese to act on expense claims
Fresh questions are being asked about the expenses federal politicians are allowed to claim and what reviews should be implemented.Despite Prime Minister Anthony Albanese saying this week that the rules governing politicians' travel allowances were set by the previous government, documents reveal Labor's Special Minister of State Don Farrell made an alteration on February 12, just weeks before the federal election was called. That change affecte…
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MASSIVE.NEWSTighter travel rules may be on the way, after Albanese seeks advice from watchdog
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appears to be starting to move towards some tightening of parliamentarians’ travel entitlements. After more than a week of controversy, Albanese on Friday said he had asked the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority for advice. “I’ve said to IPEA, please give us some advice. And we’ll take that on board and when that advice is received, we’ll make a decision in the usual way,” he told a news conference on Fr…
Second minister referred to expenses watchdog, PM asks for advice
The review, which could take months, was launched after Wells referred her spending to the independent watchdog on Tuesday following days of revelations about her use of entitlements, including flying her husband to successive grand final events and her children to Thredbo for a ski trip.
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