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Scott Yung speaking during the federal election campaign, with an advertising blimp hovering overhead.

Blimps, billboards and a $400,000 hole: The Liberal debt crisis haunting Bennelong

Scott Yung spent big trying to win Bennelong during the 2025 federal election. Now insiders say he won’t pay the Liberal Party back.

  • Max Maddison

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Tate stopped off at Mar-a-Lago during a month long trip.

Ratepayers foot bill for mayor’s flights on Trump resort trip

However, the mayor’s register of interests shows the US president’s business paid for him to stay at the resort shortly before plans for Trump Tower were announced, as well as covering other expenses.

  • Julius Dennis
Pauline Hanson visited the college in October.

Hanson billed taxpayers $9000 for charter flight to opening of Rinehart-funded building

The Queensland senator defended her attendance at the Victorian event celebrating the contribution from Australia’s richest person.

  • Brittany Busch
Ben Oquist and Senator Sarah Hanson-Young at last year’s Midwinter Ball

Sarah Hanson-Young will stop charging taxpayers for lobbyist husband’s travel

The Greens MP said she had acted in good faith, but that claiming the entitlement wasn’t worth the stress.

  • Brittany Busch
The Queensland senator has been a shareholder of A Pauline Production Pty Ltd since October.

Hanson fails to declare interests including company tied to ‘anti-woke’ movie

The Queensland senator, whose One Nation party is riding high in the polls, has undeclared involvement in three companies.

  • Patrick Begley
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese defended ministerial use of travel perks, insisting he does not make the rules before backing down following weeks of pressure.

Senior politicians to be stripped of uncapped family flights after expenses scandal

A review into MP entitlements reveals most do not regularly fly their families around the country, but some high-profile claims from senior politicians has led to the perks being curtailed.

  • Brittany Busch
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Senator Sarah Hanson-Young became embroiled in the expenses saga in late 2025.

Greens senator’s lobbyist husband gets free pass on $50k of taxpayer-funded flights

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s husband Ben Oquist works for a high-powered lobbying firm but taxpayers paid for his flights to work in Canberra.

  • Brittany Busch
Liberal MP Michaelia Cash has claimed the travel allowance more frequently than any other senior politician.

The tab for MPs living away from home in their own homes

Another long-held entitlement for federal politicians looks increasingly out of step with public expectations.

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Liberal MP Michaelia Cash has claimed the travel allowance more frequently than any other senior politician.

The other travel perk politicians pocket when they go to Canberra

Senator Michaelia Cash has claimed $123,978 over 40 months, or more than $3000 a month, to stay in a home she owns in the nation’s capital.

  • Brittany Busch and Nigel Gladstone
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made suggestions for tightening family travel rules after an expenses scandal triggered by Communications Minister Anika Wells.

MPs’ family travel to be limited to economy class after expenses saga

Anthony Albanese said he advised family travel should also be limited to Canberra or an MP’s electorate – aside from special circumstances – after an expenses scandal engulfed his government.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos