WTF? Choppergate was just the tip of the iceberg. Another wedding trip and another taxpayer funded trip to it. She's never paid it back either. Pigs at the trough.
One MP ignored the Prime Minister's instruction, weeks of media coverage and public outrage at MPs' habit of billing the taxpayer for trips to friends' weddings.
Embattled Speaker Bronwyn Bishop claimed $600 for return flights from Sydney to Albury for Mrs Mirabella's wedding in 2006 – and she has never repaid the money, Fairfax Media has confirmed.
Previously unreported documents released under freedom of information laws show Mrs Bishop told bureaucrats that the trip constituted government business.
An expense document written in Mrs Bishop's own hand lists only "committee chair business" when asked the purpose of flights, which took her to three cities, including Albury, from where she travelled to the Wangaratta wedding.
The Speaker reiterated that statement when questioned by Fairfax Media.
"She was there [in Albury] on official committee chair business," a spokesman for the Speaker said.
But the spokesman refused to answer questions about what that business was or whether Mrs Bishop had any engagements on the trip. "We've got no further comment," he said.
Her office did not respond to questions about why the Speaker had not thought to repay the expenses, given the publicity around the case and the PM's own decision to refund money. Read more
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