Published: January 10, 2019
Finance minister booked defence jet for media duties in Canberra, a visit to Adelaide and then back to Perth in between Senate sittings
Dan Tehan has defended the finance minister Mathias Cormann’s decision to spend almost $40,000 in travel costs in one day to promote the government’s tax plan as “within the rules”.
Cormann booked a defence jet on 22 June last year to fly between Perth and Canberra to lobby for support for the now abandoned company tax plan. Cormann booked the special purpose flight after no commercial planes fitted the schedule, which included media duties in Canberra, a visit to Adelaide and then back to Perth in between parliamentary sittings, at a cost of $37,000, the ABC reported.
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