1 week ago 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.

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3 w. ago Australia news as it happened: Albanese shirks responsibility for parliamentary expenses saga; Health minister meeting state counterparts over funding as ‘bed

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3 w. ago Australia news LIVE: Albanese shirks responsibility for parliamentary expenses saga; Health Minister meeting state counterparts over funding as ‘bed

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3 w. ago Australia news LIVE: Albanese continues to shirk responsibility for parliamentary expenses saga; Illicit tobacco market costing taxpayers $11.8 billion, government report finds

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3 w. ago Albanese bristles at expenses questions, Wells faces having to hand over metadata

The prime minister has ducked responsibility for the widening MPs’ expenses saga by claiming he was not in charge of the rules in a tense press conference in Canberra.

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3 w. ago Albanese is getting close to his ‘I don’t hold a hose’ moment

The prime minister’s sudden insistence the expenses saga has nothing to do with him has left even some of his own colleagues blinking.

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3 w. ago Albanese digs in on MPs entitlements saga as more Wells spending comes to light

The prime minister is backing his minister Anika Wells’ use of parliamentary entitlements, even as fresh information reveals more examples of her using taxpayer funds to attend party fundraisers.

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3 w. ago Albanese, Wells decline to back overhaul of family travel perks for MPs

Two Coalition MPs have called for entitlement rules to be scrutinised, while the prime minister and Wells attempted to keep focus on the government’s social media ban.

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