Sarah Hanson-Young
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
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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
- Opinion
- Political leadership
2025, a year best to forget? We never will
The year is marred by the horror of its closing month, yet other events will not escape our memory.
- George Brandis
- Inside Story
- Political expenses
Money Wells spent: Anatomy of an expenses scandal
The expenses saga that dominated headlines this month started at a glittering event in New York, but Anika Wells’ trips and tickets had been tracked for some time.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
- Updated
- Political expenses
Albanese bristles at expenses questions, Wells faces having to hand over metadata
The prime minister has ducked responsibility for the widening MPs’ expenses saga by claiming he was not in charge of the rules in a tense press conference in Canberra.
- Paul Sakkal, Brittany Busch and Nigel Gladstone
The MPs who spent more than $100,000 – and the ministers who spent $0 – on family travel
Australian taxpayers have spent more than $4 million on travel for politicians’ families and spouses since the election of the Albanese government.
- Natassia Chrysanthos, Brittany Busch and Nigel Gladstone
‘Big political price’: Labor steps up pressure on Greens to pass environment reform
Environment Minister Murray Watt says the Greens have already suffered for standing in the way of reform.
- Nick Newling and Matthew Knott
‘Sadistic’ online gangs hunting Australian girls like a video game, AFP chief warns
Tech giants have fronted a Senate inquiry, and confirmed their intentions to boot under-16s off their platforms on December 10.
- Matthew Knott and Nick Newling
Optus sent outage alerts to wrong email address during Triple Zero crisis
Optus sent two emails seven minutes apart to a defunct email address despite updating its records of the correct email address just a week earlier.
- Nick Newling
- Exclusive
- AI
Big tech offer opt-out for writers, musicians, news as artists descend on Canberra
A delegation of writers and musicians including author Thomas Keneally and rapper Briggs will land in Canberra on Tuesday to fight an AI copyright proposal.
- Paul Sakkal