Daves2017 wrote Yesterday at 8:00pm:


As the sports minister, she should go to major sporting events the govt. helps fund ... even if it's just to make sure the money is being spent wisely. The husband on the other hand should pay his own way

Bobby. wrote Today at 7:56am:


boo hoo

Senator Farrell – the 71-year-old minister and Labor power­broker – on Monday evening defended more than $123,000 in family travel claims over almost four years, arguing the system he regularly uses allows single parents, young mothers and carers to more easily serve in parliament.

Family reunion entitlements permit federal MPs and senators to claim as many as three return business class flights per year for members of their family, on the proviso that the travel is between the MP’s electorate or home state and a destination other than Canberra. Travel to and from Canberra is capped at a value of nine business class fares for spouses and three economy flights per ­dependent child.

Among the litany of contentious expense claims are return flights for Ms Wells’ husband to attend the 2022 AFL grand final. Mr McCarthy jetted to Melbourne on September 24 and returned to Brisbane the following day at a cost of $2913.68, according to IPEA records.

It just keeps on keeping on ...



Sport Minister Anika Wells left a Comcar limousine waiting for nearly 10 hours while she attended the 2022 NRL and NRLW grand finals, costing taxpayers more than $1200.

This masthead also revealed on Monday that the embattled sport and communications minister had charged taxpayers nearly $1000 for a Comcar to wait for her while she was at the Australian Open tennis. But the cost of her Comcar usage at the rugby league grand finals was even higher, totalling $1287.76, according to Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority data.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/wells-left-car-waiting-for-hours-at-n...