Thursday, 25 September 2014

Whining Pyne's travel rort to Europe

At first I was pretty bored with it all. Meh, another gov front bencher rorts the taxpayers for free travel, claiming it's official political business or some crap. But I started getting interested when I came across some of the more spectacular blatancy of the rort. Not a small amount at $30,000 of taxpayers money.

So Pyne took this trip to Europe. With his wife. People started asking "WTF?" This was the justification, that he saved us all money by flying economy:
A letter from Ms Credlin to Mr Pyne's office approving the trip also notes that the attendance of Mrs Pyne was expected to cost the Commonwealth no more than a business class airfare for the minister. As a minister, Mr Pyne is entitled to fly business class on official overseas travel. 

Mr Pyne flew business class from Adelaide to Sydney but switched to economy for the rest of the journey to London. Read more
May I present to you exhibit A, the paperwork about how it all was arranged:


May I present a zoom in of exhibit A. Perhaps I shall call this exhibit A1? Note what it says about flying Sydney to London:


Yes, he arranged all that and said nothing about it. 

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