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The treasurer, Joe Hockey, has failed to come to the support of embattled House speaker Bronwyn Bishop in an interview on 2UE radio. Appearing on the Macquarie Network on Thursday, the treasurer was asked if Bishop's recently-revealed taxpayer-funded helicopter ride from Geelong to Essendon passed.... |
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BUT she's standing by her argument that the $5227.27 claim was within the rules. Mrs Bishop said in a statement on Thursday she had written to the Special Minister of State Michael Ronaldson indicating she would reimburse the costs associated with the November 5 trip. |
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Sorry, your browser is unable to play this video. Please install ™ and try again. Alternatively to a modern browser. upgrade The treasurer, Joe Hockey, has failed to come to the support of embattled House speaker Bronwyn Bishop in an interview on 2UE radio. |
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The Speaker, Bronwyn Bishop , has bowed to political pressure and agreed to repay more than $5,000 she billed taxpayers for a chartered helicopter flight from Melbourne to Geelong for a party fundraiser. Bishop issued a brief statement on Thursday afternoon insisting she had not breached the rules but would reimburse the funds. |
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Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: July 15. Los Angeles Times on the Boy Scouts' gay gap: The Boy Scouts of America didn't go as far as it ought to have with its new recommendation on gay Scout leaders, but it did make reluctant headway. |
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Speaker Bronwyn Bishop will repay the $5000 of taxpayer money she used to fly by helicopter to a Liberal party fundraiser. In a statement released this afternoon, Ms Bishop said she did not believe she had done anything improper. "Whilst my understanding is that this travel was conducted within the.... |
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Speaker Bronwyn Bishop is facing pressure from within federal government ranks to explain why she spent $5000 of taxpayer's money on a helicopter trip to and from a Liberal party fundraiser. Mrs Bishop's office says the chartered flight from Melbourne to the Clifton Springs Golf Club in November - a.... |
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Mrs Bishop said in a statement on Thursday she had written to the Special Minister of State Michael Ronaldson indicating she would reimburse the costs associated with the November 5 trip. "Whilst my understanding is that this travel was conducted within the rules, to avoid any doubt I will reimburse the full costs," she said. |
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MRS Bishop's office says the chartered flight from Melbourne to the Clifton Springs Golf Club in November - a journey of about 100km - was done "in accordance with the guidelines and within entitlement". But Treasurer Joe Hockey doesn't believe it passes the `sniff test'. "Instinctively, it doesn't," he told Sydney radio station 2UE on Thursday. |
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Treasurer Joe Hockey wants Bronwyn Bishop to explain why she spent $5000 to fly to a Liberal party fundraiser, saying the claim on taxpayer money doesn't pass the "sniff test". The federal parliamentary Speaker is under fire for using a charter helicopter to take an 100-kilometre journey from Melbourne to Geelong last year. |
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I PERSONALLY cannot dismiss the political undertones in the issue of the much ballyhooed "fake rice" and the most recent food poisoning reports attributed to the sale of contaminated durian candies. It is clear that some devious characters are making an immoral political capital out of these reports.... |
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