This Month
We all love an upgrade, but MPs need their wings clipped: AFR readers
Readers raised concerns about conflicts of interest, as the scandal engulfing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Qantas perks spread to the Coalition.
- Hannah Wootton
October
PM in tangle over Qantas lounge plus ones
Both Anthony Albanese’s fiancee and son are members of Qantas’ exclusive Chairman’s Lounge despite the prime minister saying his son was effectively his “plus one”.
- Michael Read and Jenny Wiggins
December 2023
MPs drop $30m on expenses in three months
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese led the pack, spending $684,665 between July and September 2022, newly released data show.
- Michael Read
August 2023
IT bungle keeps MPs’ expenses unknown for two years
A botched upgrade to a system for reporting MPs’ expenses has meant no reports published for a year, with the backlog not expected to clear until mid-2024.
- Nick Bonyhady
December 2020
- Exclusive
- Tony Burke
Labor's Burke repays $8600 for Uluru family flights
The repayment to the Finance Department ends a long-running controversy for the opposition frontbencher.
- Tom McIlroy
November 2020
- Opinion
- Rear Window
How Gary Johns became a $250,000 charity case
Why claim relocation costs when you can fly business class to Melbourne every week?
- Neil Chenoweth
January 2020
George Christensen repays $2K travel costs
The Queensland MP, dubbed the member for Manila, has been under fire for spending 294 days in the Philippines between 2014 and 2018.
- Matt Coughlan and and Tom McIlroy
September 2019
ScoMo dubs his new plane 'Shark One'
The RAAF's new prime ministerial jet makes its debut on ScoMo's trip to the US next week.
- Joe Aston