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| Bronwyn Bishop under scrutiny over expenses for flight to another wedding | Bronwyn Bishop under scrutiny over expenses for flight to another wedding |
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| Bronwyn Bishop is again under pressure for claiming parliamentary travel entitlements to attend private functions, this time the wedding of her colleague Teresa Gambaro. | |
| News Corp on Wednesday reported that the Speaker claimed a travel allowance of $288 to stay in Brisbane in April 2007 when she attended Gambaro’s wedding. | |
| A spokesman for Bishop told News Corp the Speaker had met an unnamed academic as part of an parliamentary inquiry into illicit drugs that was held the Monday after the wedding. | |
| Calls to the Speaker’s office to verify the claims have gone unanswered. | Calls to the Speaker’s office to verify the claims have gone unanswered. |
| Related: Bronwyn Bishop has never welcomed the kind of scrutiny she applies to others | David Leser | |
| Bishop has come under fire for claiming $600 for flights to Albury in 2006 when she attended the wedding of the former Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella. | |
| The Speaker has insisted she flew to the Victorian town for a secret meeting in her capacity as chair of the standing committee of family and human services, to meet people who did not wish to appear before a public hearing of an inquiry into work-life balance. | The Speaker has insisted she flew to the Victorian town for a secret meeting in her capacity as chair of the standing committee of family and human services, to meet people who did not wish to appear before a public hearing of an inquiry into work-life balance. |
| A spokesman for Bishop was unable to provide Guardian Australia with the details of how many people she met at the weekend in question when contacted on Tuesday. | |
| Other committee members do not remember authorising committee business for the Albury trip. | Other committee members do not remember authorising committee business for the Albury trip. |
| “I can’t recall any reason Bronwyn Bishop would need to be in Albury that weekend but I do absolutely say if there was a reason, if she did go through the proper processes, then there would be documentation and we wouldn’t need to be here speculating about it,” Labor’s education spokeswoman, Kate Ellis, said on Tuesday. | “I can’t recall any reason Bronwyn Bishop would need to be in Albury that weekend but I do absolutely say if there was a reason, if she did go through the proper processes, then there would be documentation and we wouldn’t need to be here speculating about it,” Labor’s education spokeswoman, Kate Ellis, said on Tuesday. |
| “This is up to Tony Abbott and Bronwyn Bishop to put this matter to rest and they should be able to do that very easily by just producing the documents.” | “This is up to Tony Abbott and Bronwyn Bishop to put this matter to rest and they should be able to do that very easily by just producing the documents.” |
| The prime minister, Tony Abbott, put Bishop on “probation” after she claimed $5,277 to take a helicopter trip between Melbourne and Geelong for a Liberal party fundraiser. She was forced to pay back the money, including a 25% loading for lodging the incorrect claim. | |
| The foreign minister, Julie Bishop, refused to say whether or not the Speaker should be sacked, saying that “the matter has a way to run”. | The foreign minister, Julie Bishop, refused to say whether or not the Speaker should be sacked, saying that “the matter has a way to run”. |
| “I understand that the Labor party will seek to use this to destabilise question time, for example, and I’m sure Speaker Bishop will take that into account as she considers her position,” Julie Bishop told Channel Seven on Wednesday morning. | |
| “But I believe it’s important that the Department of Finance be able to carry out an investigation. That’s what has happened in the past and that should happen in this case.” |