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The government now says it costs $19 billion","2026-10-25",{"project":44,"originalCost":45,"currentCost":46,"announced":47,"note":48},"Cross River Rail",5400000000,19041000000,"2017","Queensland Government figure (Oct 2025). It includes 25 years of tunnel maintenance and network works; Labor disputes counting them.",{"path":50,"title":51,"category":9,"date":42,"blowout":52},"\u002Fstories\u002Fhunter-class-frigates-27-billion-three-ships","Hunter-class frigates: sold as nine warships for $35 billion. We're now paying $27 billion for three",{"project":53,"originalCost":54,"currentCost":55,"announced":56,"note":57},"Hunter-class frigates",35000000000,45600000000,"2018","2020 Force Structure Plan estimate for nine ships. The program is now six ships; close to $27bn is allocated for the first three, including the Osborne shipyard.",{"path":59,"title":60,"category":9,"date":42,"blowout":61},"\u002Fstories\u002Finland-rail-cost-blowout-45-billion-parkes","Inland Rail was sold as a $10.7 billion project. It now costs $45.6 billion, and stops at Parkes",{"project":62,"originalCost":63,"currentCost":55,"announced":64,"note":65},"Inland Rail",10660000000,"2015","Both P90 estimates for the full Melbourne to Brisbane line. Only Beveridge to Parkes is now being built.",{"path":67,"title":68,"category":9,"date":42,"blowout":69},"\u002Fstories\u002Fnorth-east-link-cost-blowout-26-billion","North East Link was sold as a $10 billion road. It now costs $26 billion",{"project":70,"originalCost":71,"currentCost":72,"announced":73,"note":74},"North East Link",10000000000,26100000000,"2016","Victoria's December 2023 estimate. Includes the Eastern Freeway and M80 upgrades added since.",{"path":76,"title":77,"category":9,"date":42,"blowout":78},"\u002Fstories\u002Fsnowy-2-0-cost-blowout-25-billion","Snowy 2.0 was sold as a $2 billion project. It could now cost $25 billion",{"project":79,"originalCost":80,"currentCost":81,"announced":47,"note":82},"Snowy 2.0",2000000000,22200000000,"Target cost. Up to $25bn with contingency; transmission not included.",[84,95,105,114,123,133,141,151,159,167,175,183,191,198,206,212,218,225,233,241,249],{"path":85,"title":86,"description":87,"date":88,"category":9,"author":89,"image":90,"imageAlt":90,"bigNumber":91,"bigNumberLabel":92,"readingTime":93,"featured":94},"\u002Fstories\u002Fsuburban-rail-loop-cost-96-billion","Suburban Rail Loop cost: $50bn promised, $96.4bn forecast","How much will the Suburban Rail Loop cost? $33.3bn for stage one, says the government, but the Auditor-General says it could top $36bn. Two stages: $96.4bn.","2026-11-01","Aussie Outrage",null,"$96.4bn","What Victoria's Parliamentary Budget Office estimated in 2024 it would cost to build two sections of the loop. All of it was promised for $50bn.",12,false,{"path":96,"title":97,"description":98,"date":99,"category":7,"author":89,"image":100,"imageAlt":101,"bigNumber":102,"bigNumberLabel":103,"readingTime":104,"featured":94},"\u002Fstories\u002Fcar-insurance-premiums-up-42-percent","Car insurance premiums: up 42%, and insurers don't say why","Car insurance premiums in Australia rose 42% in five years and another 8% last year. ASIC found no insurer explained why. What's driving it and how to pay less.","2026-10-28","\u002Fimages\u002Fcar-insurance-eastern-freeway-traffic.jpg","Morning peak-hour traffic banked up on Melbourne's Eastern Freeway","42%","Rise in the average comprehensive car insurance premium from 2019 to 2024, before another 8% in 2024-25",8,{"path":106,"title":107,"description":108,"date":99,"category":7,"author":89,"image":109,"imageAlt":110,"bigNumber":111,"bigNumberLabel":112,"readingTime":113,"featured":94},"\u002Fstories\u002Fcoles-down-down-court-case-discounts-not-genuine","Coles Down Down court case: 13 of 14 discounts not genuine","The Coles Down Down court case: a judge found 13 of 14 discounts weren't genuine. No penalty until 2027, Woolworths awaits judgment, and profits are up.","\u002Fimages\u002Fcoles-aisle-trolley.jpg","A shopping trolley in a Coles supermarket aisle lined with stocked shelves and yellow price tickets","13 of 14","Coles 'Down Down' tickets the Federal Court found misleading, because the discount wasn't genuine",7,{"path":115,"title":116,"description":117,"date":99,"category":7,"author":89,"image":118,"imageAlt":119,"bigNumber":120,"bigNumberLabel":121,"readingTime":122,"featured":94},"\u002Fstories\u002Frent-prices-australia","Rent prices in Australia now take a record 34% of income","Rent prices in Australia: the median is $713 a week, renters pay a record 34% of income, and a full-time minimum wage worker can afford 0.5% of listings.","\u002Fimages\u002Frent-paddington-terraces.jpg","A row of terrace houses on a leafy street at Fiveways, Paddington, in Sydney","34%","Share of pre-tax income the typical renting household spent on rent in June 2026, the highest on record",6,{"path":124,"title":125,"description":126,"date":127,"category":7,"author":89,"image":128,"imageAlt":129,"bigNumber":130,"bigNumberLabel":131,"readingTime":132,"featured":94},"\u002Fstories\u002Faustralia-inflation-rate","Australia's inflation rate climbs to 4.3%. Here's why","Australia's inflation rate rose to 4.3% in September 2026, up from 4.0%. Petrol, up 23.6% in a year, and power bills after the rebates ended led the rise.","2026-10-27","\u002Fimages\u002Finflation-petrol-prices-brisbane.jpg","A United service station in Brisbane with its price board showing unleaded at 241.9 cents a litre and diesel at 295.9","4.3%","Australia's inflation rate, 12 months to September 2026",13,{"path":134,"title":135,"description":136,"date":127,"category":7,"author":89,"image":137,"imageAlt":138,"bigNumber":139,"bigNumberLabel":140,"readingTime":104,"featured":94},"\u002Fstories\u002Finterest-rate-rises-australia-2026","Interest rate rises in Australia: four in 2026, and the cost","Every RBA interest rate rise in Australia in 2026, why the Reserve Bank raised rates to 4.60%, and what they add to a typical mortgage: about $470 a month.","\u002Fimages\u002Frba-building-sydney.jpg","The upper floors of the Reserve Bank of Australia's office tower in Sydney","$470","Extra a month on the average new home loan after four interest rate rises in 2026",{"path":142,"title":143,"description":144,"date":145,"category":9,"author":89,"image":146,"imageAlt":147,"bigNumber":148,"bigNumberLabel":149,"readingTime":150,"featured":94},"\u002Fstories\u002Fbig-build-office-pot-plants-1-6-million","$1.6 million on pot plants for Big Build offices","Rail Projects Victoria spent an estimated $1.64 million on plant hire and maintenance, and the Suburban Rail Loop Authority almost $200,000 more, according to the state opposition.","2026-10-26","\u002Fimages\u002Foffice-plants-desk.jpg","Small potted succulents on a timber office desk","$1.6m","Estimated spend on plant hire and maintenance at Rail Projects Victoria",2,{"path":152,"title":153,"description":154,"date":145,"category":9,"author":89,"image":155,"imageAlt":156,"bigNumber":157,"bigNumberLabel":158,"readingTime":150,"featured":94},"\u002Fstories\u002Fcommonwealth-games-cancelled-589-million","$589 million to host nothing: what cancelling the Commonwealth Games cost Victoria","Victoria pulled out of the 2026 Commonwealth Games to save money. The Auditor-General found walking away cost $589 million with no discernible benefit, and the $6.9 billion figure used to justify it was overstated.","\u002Fimages\u002Feureka-stadium-ballarat.jpg","An aerial view of Eureka Stadium in Ballarat, with a blue athletics track behind it","$589m","What Victoria paid to cancel the 2026 Commonwealth Games",{"path":160,"title":161,"description":162,"date":145,"category":9,"author":89,"image":163,"imageAlt":164,"bigNumber":165,"bigNumberLabel":166,"readingTime":150,"featured":94},"\u002Fstories\u002Fmachete-ban-13-million-bins","The $13 million machete ban: what the money actually pays for","Victoria set aside $13 million for its machete ban and amnesty bins. The bins cost about $2,400 each. The government still hasn't said where the rest of the money goes.","\u002Fimages\u002Fmachete-amnesty-bin-echuca.jpg","A navy steel bin labelled Machete Amnesty Safe Disposal Bin outside Echuca police station","$13m","Budgeted for Victoria's machete ban, including about 45 disposal bins",{"path":168,"title":169,"description":170,"date":145,"category":9,"author":89,"image":171,"imageAlt":172,"bigNumber":173,"bigNumberLabel":174,"readingTime":150,"featured":94},"\u002Fstories\u002Fmetro-tunnel-plaques-70000-replaced","$70,000 to fix the wording on Metro Tunnel plaques","Commemorative plaques for the Metro Tunnel were replaced after errors were found in their wording, at a reported cost of about $70,000. Nobody has said who got it wrong or who paid.","\u002Fimages\u002Fmetro-tunnel-town-hall-platform.jpg","Orange arches above the crowded platform at Town Hall station in Melbourne's Metro Tunnel","$70k","Reported cost of replacing Metro Tunnel plaques after a wording error",{"path":176,"title":177,"description":178,"date":42,"category":5,"author":89,"image":179,"imageAlt":180,"bigNumber":181,"bigNumberLabel":182,"readingTime":113,"featured":94},"\u002Fstories\u002Fato-tax-transparency-2024-25-companies-paid-no-tax","1,149 of Australia's biggest companies paid no income tax last year","The ATO's latest tax transparency report covers every company earning more than $100 million. More than one in four paid nothing. Here's what the numbers show, and why the tax office says it's not always a scandal.","\u002Fimages\u002Fato-building-canberra.jpg","A multi-storey Australian Taxation Office building in Canberra's city centre, with a car park in front","1 in 4","Large companies that paid no income tax in 2024-25",{"path":184,"title":185,"description":186,"date":42,"category":9,"author":89,"image":187,"imageAlt":188,"bigNumber":189,"bigNumberLabel":190,"readingTime":122,"featured":94},"\u002Fstories\u002Fbig-build-cfmeu-15-billion-corruption-estimate","The $15 billion question: what corruption on Victoria's Big Build may have cost you","A senior barrister estimates criminal infiltration of the CFMEU added about $15 billion to Victoria's Big Build. The government disputes it. A premier has resigned, a royal commission is under way, and Victorians vote on 28 November.","\u002Fimages\u002Fbig-build-metro-tunnel-abeckett-street.jpg","Hoardings and a white shed around a Metro Tunnel construction site on A'Beckett Street in Melbourne","$15bn","Geoffrey Watson SC's estimate of what corruption may have cost taxpayers on Victoria's Big Build (disputed by the government)",{"path":40,"title":41,"description":192,"date":42,"category":9,"author":89,"image":193,"imageAlt":194,"bigNumber":195,"bigNumberLabel":196,"readingTime":197,"featured":94},"Brisbane's Cross River Rail was promised for $5.4bn by 2024. The Queensland Government now puts it at $19.04bn, with first trains in 2029. Labor says the books were cooked.","\u002Fimages\u002Fcross-river-rail-roma-street-site.jpg","A large grey Cross River Rail construction shed at the Roma Street station site in Brisbane","3.5x","Cross River Rail's cost now, on the Queensland Government's count, compared with the $5.4bn first promised",5,{"path":199,"title":200,"description":201,"date":42,"category":5,"author":89,"image":202,"imageAlt":203,"bigNumber":204,"bigNumberLabel":205,"readingTime":122,"featured":94},"\u002Fstories\u002Feast-coast-gas-exported-australians-pay-more","Three-quarters of east coast gas is shipped overseas. Australians pay export prices for the rest","Before the Gladstone LNG plants opened, east coast gas cost about $4 a gigajoule. Now it's around $14, and the regulator is warning of shortfalls. Follow the gas, and the money.","\u002Fimages\u002Fgas-curtis-island-lng.jpg","An aerial view of LNG plants being built on Curtis Island, with storage tanks on the shoreline near Gladstone","75%","Share of east coast gas production that is exported as LNG",{"path":50,"title":51,"description":207,"date":42,"category":9,"author":89,"image":208,"imageAlt":209,"bigNumber":210,"bigNumberLabel":211,"readingTime":122,"featured":94},"The Hunter-class frigate program was cut from nine ships to six, and close to $27bn is now set aside for the first three. The first won't arrive until 2032.","\u002Fimages\u002Fhms-glasgow-type-26.jpg","The grey British frigate HMS Glasgow on a semi-submersible barge at a Glasgow shipyard at sunset","$27bn","Set aside for the first three Hunter-class frigates, out of a program once sold as nine ships for $35bn",{"path":59,"title":60,"description":213,"date":42,"category":9,"author":89,"image":214,"imageAlt":215,"bigNumber":216,"bigNumberLabel":217,"readingTime":122,"featured":94},"Inland Rail's full cost is now $45.6bn, four times the 2015 business case. In May the government stopped it at Parkes, 1,000km short of Brisbane.","\u002Fimages\u002Fparkes-railway-station.jpg","The red-brick Parkes railway station building under a clear blue sky","4x","Inland Rail's latest full cost compared with its 2015 business case",{"path":67,"title":68,"description":219,"date":42,"category":9,"author":89,"image":220,"imageAlt":221,"bigNumber":222,"bigNumberLabel":223,"readingTime":224,"featured":94},"Melbourne's North East Link was unveiled at $10bn in 2016. It's now $26.1bn, Victoria's most expensive road. The Treasurer said 60% of the rise was the government's own choices.","\u002Fimages\u002Fnorth-east-link-bulleen.jpg","An aerial view of North East Link works at Bulleen, with two red and white cranes above the site","2.6x","North East Link's cost now, compared with the $10bn it was unveiled at in 2016",4,{"path":226,"title":227,"description":228,"date":42,"category":7,"author":89,"image":229,"imageAlt":230,"bigNumber":231,"bigNumberLabel":232,"readingTime":122,"featured":94},"\u002Fstories\u002Fpower-bills-rebates-ended-prices-falling","Power prices 'fell' this year. So why is your bill bigger?","The regulator cut its benchmark price by a few per cent in July. But the government rebates have ended, and the rises of 2022 to 2024 haven't gone anywhere. Here's what's really happening to your power and heating bills.","\u002Fimages\u002Felectricity-pylons-gregadoo.jpg","Two electricity transmission pylons in a green paddock under a blue sky at Gregadoo, NSW","18-22%","How much higher the typical household power bill was in NSW, Victoria and SA, year on year, in the September 2025 quarter",{"path":234,"title":235,"description":236,"date":42,"category":5,"author":89,"image":237,"imageAlt":238,"bigNumber":239,"bigNumberLabel":240,"readingTime":197,"featured":94},"\u002Fstories\u002Fprofit-shifting-money-trail-chevron-rio-tinto","How to move a profit offshore: the 9% loan and the Singapore hub","Two real cases, one decided in court and one settled with the tax office for about $1 billion, show how multinationals can shrink an Australian tax bill. Follow the money, step by step.","\u002Fimages\u002Fsingapore-financial-district.jpg","The towers of Singapore's financial district seen across Marina Bay","~$1bn","What Rio Tinto agreed to pay the ATO to settle its Singapore marketing hub dispute",{"path":76,"title":77,"description":242,"date":42,"category":9,"author":89,"image":243,"imageAlt":244,"bigNumber":245,"bigNumberLabel":246,"readingTime":247,"featured":248},"Snowy 2.0 was sold at $2 billion in 2017. Snowy Hydro's new target cost is $22.2 billion, up to $25 billion, and first power is now 2029. How it blew out.","\u002Fimages\u002Fsnowy-hydro.jpg","Pipelines run down a hillside to a power station on the Snowy Mountains Scheme","12x","Snowy 2.0's possible final cost compared with the 2017 price tag",9,true,{"path":30,"title":31,"description":250,"date":32,"category":9,"author":89,"image":251,"imageAlt":252,"bigNumber":253,"bigNumberLabel":254,"readingTime":122,"featured":94},"The weather bureau's redesign launched days before a wild storm weekend, confused farmers, and cost 23 times what Australians were first told. Then the same contractor won more work.","\u002Fimages\u002Fbom-berrimah-radar-darwin.jpg","The white dome of a Bureau of Meteorology weather radar on a tower at Berrimah, Darwin","$96.5m","What the BOM website really cost, after the public was told $4.1m",[256,324,490,550,611,722,776,830,892,942,993,1048,1096],{"id":257,"title":258,"body":259,"career":278,"description":284,"draft":94,"electorate":285,"extension":286,"image":90,"meta":287,"name":258,"navigation":248,"party":288,"path":289,"role":290,"seo":291,"status":292,"stem":293,"trail":294,"updated":42,"__hash__":323},"people\u002Fpeople\u002Fandrew-willcox.md","Andrew Willcox",{"type":260,"value":261,"toc":274},"minimark",[262,271],[263,264,265,266,270],"p",{},"Andrew Willcox, the LNP member for the north Queensland seat of Dawson, had the fourth-highest family travel claims of any federal politician in 2024-25, according to an ABC analysis. IPEA's quarterly figures match it to the dollar: ",[267,268,269],"strong",{},"$33,758",".",[263,272,273],{},"His family travel fell to $22,752 in 2025-26, and to $1,302 in the first quarter after the January 2026 rule changes. IPEA has published no review of his family travel, and there is no finding that it broke the rules. A separate IPEA review of a December 2025 trip to Brisbane found it consistent with the rules.",{"title":275,"searchDepth":150,"depth":276,"links":277},"",3,[],[279,281],{"year":73,"event":280},"Mayor of Whitsunday Regional Council (to 2022)",{"year":282,"event":283},"2022","Elected LNP Member for Dawson (Qld)","The LNP member for Dawson had the fourth-highest family travel claims of any federal politician in 2024-25: $33,758. IPEA's records show $56,510 over two years. No review has found a breach.","Dawson (Qld)","md",{},"LNP (sits with the Nationals)","\u002Fpeople\u002Fandrew-willcox","Member for Dawson",{"title":258,"description":284},"current","people\u002Fandrew-willcox",[295,306,314],{"date":296,"title":297,"amount":298,"category":299,"outcome":300,"pubTest":301,"note":302,"source":303},"2025-06-30","Family travel, 2024-25 financial year",33758.3,"family-travel","reported","Family travel, July 2024 to June 2026","Quarterly figures from IPEA: $13,857.90 (Jul-Sep 2024), $12,038.49 (Oct-Dec), $4,081.50 (Jan-Mar 2025), $3,780.41 (Apr-Jun). The fourth-highest total of any federal politician that year, according to an ABC analysis. IPEA has published no review of these claims.",{"title":304,"url":305},"IPEA expenditure reports, Jul 2024 to Jun 2025","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fmr-andrew-willcox-mp-parliamentarian?period=59",{"date":307,"title":308,"amount":309,"category":299,"outcome":300,"pubTest":301,"note":310,"source":311},"2026-06-30","Family travel, 2025-26 financial year",22751.81,"Quarterly figures from IPEA: $10,084.71 (Jul-Sep 2025), $5,848.32 (Oct-Dec), $5,516.29 (Jan-Mar 2026), $1,302.49 (Apr-Jun, after the January 2026 rule changes). IPEA has published no review of these claims.",{"title":312,"url":313},"IPEA expenditure reports, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fmr-andrew-willcox-mp-parliamentarian?period=63",{"date":315,"title":316,"category":317,"outcome":318,"note":319,"source":320},"2025-12-05","Trip to Brisbane, 5 to 6 December 2025","travel","within-rules","IPEA reviewed this trip and found his use of work resources consistent with the rules.",{"title":321,"url":322},"IPEA assurance review 2026\u002F001, published Oct 2026","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fassurance-audit\u002Fpublished-assurance-reviews","-d5kP3zggbt5dH3AFdVeyoRF8IbzrkDbKepL1WuvWco",{"id":325,"title":326,"body":327,"career":385,"description":399,"draft":94,"electorate":400,"extension":286,"image":90,"meta":401,"name":326,"navigation":248,"party":402,"path":403,"role":404,"seo":405,"status":292,"stem":406,"trail":407,"updated":42,"__hash__":489},"people\u002Fpeople\u002Fanika-wells.md","Anika Wells",{"type":260,"value":328,"toc":381},[329,332,335,340,351,354,358,361,374],[263,330,331],{},"In December 2025, reports that Anika Wells had spent more than $100,000 on a three-day trip to a UN event in New York set off the biggest parliamentary expenses controversy since Bronwyn Bishop's helicopter ride a decade earlier. Over the following week, more claims surfaced: a family trip to Thredbo, the Formula One Grand Prix, Comcars left waiting outside sporting finals, and a work trip to Adelaide.",[263,333,334],{},"Wells said she had followed the rules, and on 9 December asked the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA) to audit her travel. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese backed her, pointing out that the family travel rules had been written by the previous government.",[336,337,339],"h2",{"id":338},"what-the-watchdog-found","What the watchdog found",[263,341,342,343,346,347,350],{},"IPEA examined all 243 of her trips from 2022 to 2025. It cleared the trips that drew the most attention: New York, Thredbo, the Grand Prix and Adelaide. It found that elements of ",[267,344,345],{},"four"," of her 25 trips involving family travel broke the rules, mostly family travel or car hire in the days after her official business had finished. She repaid ",[267,348,349],{},"$10,116.11",", including a 25% penalty, and apologised, saying she had chosen what she thought was the cheaper, more sensible option, but accepted those choices weren't allowed.",[263,352,353],{},"The audit also changed how bookings work: IPEA now flags high-cost bookings before they're finalised, so politicians can be reminded they're personally accountable for value for money.",[336,355,357],{"id":356},"what-changed-for-everyone-else","What changed for everyone else",[263,359,360],{},"The controversy forced a rewrite of the rules for all 227 federal politicians. In January 2026 the Remuneration Tribunal decided:",[362,363,364,368,371],"ul",{},[365,366,367],"li",{},"family members can no longer fly business class at taxpayers' expense",[365,369,370],{},"family reunion trips to places other than Canberra are limited to one a year",[365,372,373],{},"spouses of senior politicians attending portfolio events get three return economy fares a year",[263,375,376,377,380],{},"An ABC analysis found federal politicians claimed more than ",[267,378,379],{},"$1.1 million"," in family travel in 2024-25, with no suggestion those claims broke the rules as they stood. That was the point: the rules themselves were the problem.",{"title":275,"searchDepth":150,"depth":276,"links":382},[383,384],{"id":338,"depth":150,"text":339},{"id":356,"depth":150,"text":357},[386,389,391,393,396],{"year":387,"event":388},"2019","Elected Labor Member for Lilley (Qld)",{"year":282,"event":390},"Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Sport",{"year":37,"event":392},"Minister for Communications and Minister for Sport (sworn in 13 May)",{"year":394,"event":395},"Dec 2025","Travel costs reported; on 9 December she asks IPEA to audit her travel",{"year":397,"event":398},"May 2026","IPEA audit finds four breaches across 243 trips; repays $10,116.11","The sports and communications minister whose travel claims triggered the 2025 expenses controversy. The watchdog audited 243 trips, cleared New York and Thredbo, and found four breaches. She repaid $10,116.","Lilley (Qld)",{},"Labor","\u002Fpeople\u002Fanika-wells","Minister for Communications and Minister for Sport",{"title":326,"description":399},"people\u002Fanika-wells",[408,418,425,432,441,447,453,463,469,475,482],{"date":409,"title":410,"amount":411,"category":299,"outcome":412,"who":413,"note":414,"source":415},"2022-02-13","Husband's Brisbane–Canberra flights to collect a child who had been staying with Wells while she had COVID",1208.98,"breach","Husband","IPEA found the misreading of the family travel rules was understandable, but the travel wasn't for the dominant purpose of accompanying or joining the minister. One of four breaches in IPEA's May 2026 audit.",{"title":416,"url":417},"IPEA audit of Anika Wells' travel, 8 May 2026","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2026-05\u002FAudit%20Report%20and%20Attachments%20-%20Minister%20Wells.pdf",{"date":282,"title":419,"category":420,"outcome":421,"note":422,"source":423},"Comcar bookings that ran up significant fares, 2022 to 2025","car","cleared","Media reports in December 2025 said Comcars waited for her through sporting finals. IPEA examined the occasions with significant fares and was satisfied she had taken account of value for money. No total published.",{"title":424,"url":417},"IPEA audit of Anika Wells' travel, 8 May 2026 (paragraph 31)",{"date":426,"title":427,"category":299,"outcome":421,"who":428,"note":429,"source":430},"2024-03-22","Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, with her husband","Wells and her husband","She met stakeholders and signed an online abuse charter with Motorsport Australia. Reported in December 2025 at about $1,800. IPEA found the trip met the rules.",{"title":431,"url":417},"IPEA audit of Anika Wells' travel, 8 May 2026 (attachment J)",{"date":433,"title":434,"amount":435,"category":299,"outcome":412,"who":436,"note":437,"source":438},"2025-05-08","Family flights to Canberra and a hire car around her swearing-in as communications minister",5513.37,"Husband and children","IPEA found her parliamentary business ended on 9 May, so using the hire car on 10, 11 and most of 12 May wasn't parliamentary business. Wells told IPEA she had treated the time either side of the weekend as one continuous period, which saved a trip home. One of four breaches in IPEA's May 2026 audit.",{"title":439,"url":440},"IPEA audit of Anika Wells' travel, 8 May 2026; ABC News, 8 May 2026","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.abc.net.au\u002Fnews\u002F2026-05-08\u002Fanika-wells-repays-travel-costs-afl-grand-final\u002F106658202",{"date":442,"title":443,"category":317,"outcome":421,"note":444,"source":445},"2025-06-06","Work trip to Adelaide","Reported in December 2025 at about $3,700. IPEA found the dominant purpose was parliamentary business (a school funding announcement and meetings with South Australian ministers) and that all resources were used consistently with the rules.",{"title":446,"url":417},"IPEA audit of Anika Wells' travel, 8 May 2026 (attachment N)",{"date":448,"title":449,"category":299,"outcome":421,"who":450,"note":451,"source":452},"2025-06-20","Family trip via Canberra to Thredbo for Paralympics Australia's Adaptive Festival","Wells, her husband and two children","Her family flew with her to Canberra on 20 June and home on 22 June; she drove to Thredbo, met para-athletes and announced Paralympic funding. The ABC reported the family travel cost almost $3,000. IPEA found it met the rules.",{"title":431,"url":417},{"date":454,"title":455,"amount":456,"pubTest":457,"category":317,"outcome":421,"who":458,"note":459,"source":460},"2025-09-20","Three-day trip to New York to introduce speakers at a UN online child safety event",118000,"Three days in New York for a UN event","Wells, her deputy chief of staff, and a departmental assistant secretary","About $118,000: business-class flights for Wells and her staffer ($72,592.44), the assistant secretary's flights ($22,236), and about $24,000 for accommodation and transport. Costs rose after Wells stayed in Australia to respond to the Optus triple-zero outage instead of flying with the Prime Minister on the RAAF jet. The Prime Minister approved the trip. IPEA found it within the rules, confirming she had very limited flight options, and now flags high-cost bookings before they're made.",{"title":461,"url":462},"ABC News, FOI documents, 4 Feb 2026; IPEA audit, 8 May 2026","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.abc.net.au\u002Fnews\u002F2026-02-04\u002Ffoi-docs-show-details-of-anika-wells-new-york-trip\u002F106305526",{"date":464,"title":465,"amount":466,"category":299,"outcome":412,"who":413,"note":467,"source":468},"2025-09-28","Husband's flight home from Melbourne the day after her AFL Grand Final engagements ended",726.29,"His flight to Melbourne on 27 September to join her met the rules; the return flight on the 28th didn't, because her parliamentary business had finished the day before. One of four breaches in IPEA's May 2026 audit.",{"title":431,"url":417},{"date":470,"title":471,"amount":472,"category":420,"outcome":412,"note":473,"source":474},"2025-10-03","Hire car from Toowoomba, returned in Canberra three days later",644.25,"Booked for 74 hours around a Brisbane 2032 meeting in Toowoomba and the NRL and NRLW grand finals in Sydney. IPEA found 41 of those hours weren't parliamentary business. One of four breaches in IPEA's May 2026 audit.",{"title":431,"url":417},{"date":476,"title":477,"amount":478,"category":479,"outcome":480,"source":481},"2026-05-08","Repaid after IPEA's audit: $8,092.89 in travel costs plus a 25% penalty of $2,023.22",10116.11,"repayment","repaid",{"title":416,"url":417},{"date":483,"title":484,"category":317,"outcome":318,"note":485,"source":486},"2024-01","Travel to Melbourne around the 2024 Australian Open","One of eight politicians in IPEA's review of travel around the 2024 Australian Open, with Michelle Rowland, Don Farrell, Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton, Bridget McKenzie, Anne Ruston and Mark Butler. IPEA found the travel 'not inconsistent' with the rules and took no further action. No cost published.",{"title":487,"url":488},"IPEA assurance review 2024\u002F003, Australian Open 2024","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2025-10\u002FAssurance%20Review%20Memorandum_Australian%20Open%202024.pdf","p929CqvPdwL5HFX5ztmWu6gcDK4Y_VjNqzRtNsNGhlI",{"id":491,"title":492,"body":493,"career":506,"description":517,"draft":94,"electorate":518,"extension":286,"image":90,"meta":519,"name":492,"navigation":248,"party":520,"path":521,"role":522,"seo":523,"status":292,"stem":524,"trail":525,"updated":42,"__hash__":549},"people\u002Fpeople\u002Fanne-webster.md","Anne Webster",{"type":260,"value":494,"toc":504},[495,498,501],[263,496,497],{},"Anne Webster's family reunion travel was one of a series of reviews IPEA ran into how politicians used family travel outside trips to Canberra. IPEA looked at three trips between December 2022 and June 2023, each with her husband flying in to join her.",[263,499,500],{},"Two were found consistent with the rules. The third, in June 2023, wasn't: Webster told IPEA she flew to Melbourne for a personal matter before travelling on to Sydney for work. Her office had understood those flights were paid from her own money, but they had been charged to the Commonwealth. She repaid the flights plus a 25% penalty.",[263,502,503],{},"Labor MP Meryl Swanson was invoiced $1,016.58 after a review in the same series.",{"title":275,"searchDepth":150,"depth":276,"links":505},[],[507,509,512,515],{"year":387,"event":508},"Elected Nationals Member for Mallee (Vic)",{"year":510,"event":511},"2023","Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health",{"year":513,"event":514},"Feb 2025","IPEA begins a review of her family reunion travel from July 2021 to June 2023",{"year":397,"event":516},"IPEA finds one of three trips broke the rules; she repays $2,265.40","The Nationals MP repaid $2,265.40 after the expenses watchdog found one of three family reunion trips it reviewed, a June 2023 trip to Melbourne for a personal matter, broke the rules.","Mallee (Vic)",{},"Nationals","\u002Fpeople\u002Fanne-webster","Member for Mallee",{"title":492,"description":517},"people\u002Fanne-webster",[526,534,538,544],{"date":527,"title":528,"category":299,"outcome":318,"who":529,"note":530,"source":531},"2022-12-09","Trip to Melbourne for a Victorian Nationals board meeting and Christmas party; her husband flew in to join her","Webster and her husband","IPEA found this trip consistent with the rules. No cost published.",{"title":532,"url":533},"IPEA assurance review 2025\u002F025, published May 2026","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2026-05\u002FAssurance%20Review%20-%20Dr%20Anne%20Webster%20MP_family%20reunion%20travel_0.pdf",{"date":535,"title":536,"category":299,"outcome":318,"who":529,"note":530,"source":537},"2023-05-26","Trip to Melbourne and regional Victoria; her husband flew in to join her",{"title":532,"url":533},{"date":539,"title":540,"amount":541,"category":299,"outcome":412,"who":529,"note":542,"source":543},"2023-06-21","Her Canberra–Melbourne return flights and her husband's flight to Melbourne, for a personal matter",1812.32,"Her office had understood these flights were paid from her own money, but they had been charged to the Commonwealth as parliamentary business and family travel. IPEA found they broke the rules. Amount before the penalty, calculated from IPEA's invoice of $2,265.40 including the 25% loading.",{"title":532,"url":533},{"date":545,"title":546,"amount":547,"category":479,"outcome":480,"source":548},"2026-05","Repaid the flights plus a 25% penalty",2265.4,{"title":532,"url":533},"XxFnemLq8x_9AxZ8o3HgWGSnt4sTM2f-meZuEUcgoCM",{"id":551,"title":552,"body":553,"career":570,"description":580,"draft":94,"electorate":581,"extension":286,"image":90,"meta":582,"name":552,"navigation":248,"party":402,"path":583,"role":577,"seo":584,"status":292,"stem":585,"trail":586,"updated":42,"__hash__":610},"people\u002Fpeople\u002Fanthony-albanese.md","Anthony Albanese",{"type":260,"value":554,"toc":568},[555,558,565],[263,556,557],{},"Prime ministers fly. The RAAF's special-purpose jets exist so they can do it securely and on short notice, and nobody suggests Anthony Albanese broke any rule by using them.",[263,559,560,561,564],{},"But the bill is worth knowing. FOI documents showed he charged taxpayers more than ",[267,562,563],{},"$3.75 million"," for VIP flights in his first 14 months, more than Scott Morrison's roughly $3 million over the same stretch of his time as PM. Since regular reporting stopped in 2021, the public can't see where those flights went or who was on them.",[263,566,567],{},"His family travel came to $52,265 over two years by IPEA's figures, including $12,197 in April to June 2026: the first quarter under the tighter rules he asked for after the Wells controversy.",{"title":275,"searchDepth":150,"depth":276,"links":569},[],[571,574,576,578],{"year":572,"event":573},"1996","Elected Labor Member for Grayndler (NSW)",{"year":387,"event":575},"Labor leader",{"year":282,"event":577},"Prime Minister",{"year":394,"event":579},"Moves to restrict family travel entitlements after the Wells controversy","The Prime Minister charged taxpayers more than $3.75 million for VIP RAAF flights in his first 14 months, and $52,265 in family travel over two years. All within the rules.","Grayndler (NSW)",{},"\u002Fpeople\u002Fanthony-albanese",{"title":552,"description":580},"people\u002Fanthony-albanese",[587,597,600,605],{"date":588,"title":589,"amount":590,"category":591,"outcome":300,"pubTest":592,"note":593,"source":594},"2022-04","Special-purpose (VIP) RAAF flights, April 2022 to June 2023",3750000,"vip-flights","More than $3.75m in VIP RAAF flights in his first 14 months","More than $3.75 million, according to FOI documents requested by Greens senator David Shoebridge. Deputy PM Richard Marles spent more than $2.9 million over the same period. For comparison, Scott Morrison spent about $3 million in his first 14 months as PM. The government said the aircraft also carry other parliamentarians. Dates, destinations and passengers weren't released; regular public reporting of VIP flights stopped in 2021.",{"title":595,"url":596},"The Canberra Times, 18 Aug 2023","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.canberratimes.com.au\u002Fstory\u002F8314752\u002Falbanese-has-spent-more-than-375-million-on-vip-raaf-flights\u002F",{"date":483,"title":484,"category":317,"outcome":318,"note":598,"source":599},"One of eight politicians in IPEA's review of travel around the 2024 Australian Open. IPEA found the travel 'not inconsistent' with the rules and took no further action. No cost published.",{"title":487,"url":488},{"date":296,"title":297,"amount":601,"category":299,"outcome":300,"pubTest":301,"note":602,"source":603},30253.08,"Quarterly figures from IPEA: $3,126.00 (Jul-Sep 2024), $8,108.42 (Oct-Dec), $9,232.72 (Jan-Mar 2025), $9,785.94 (Apr-Jun). An ABC analysis put his 2024-25 family travel at $28,229, seventh highest; IPEA reports claims in the quarter they were paid, which may explain the difference.",{"title":304,"url":604},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fhon-anthony-albanese-mp-parliamentarian?period=59",{"date":307,"title":308,"amount":606,"category":299,"outcome":300,"pubTest":301,"note":607,"source":608},22012.16,"Quarterly figures from IPEA: $6,574.05 (Jul-Sep 2025), $1,004.74 (Oct-Dec), $2,235.97 (Jan-Mar 2026), $12,197.40 (Apr-Jun, after the January 2026 rule changes).",{"title":312,"url":609},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fhon-anthony-albanese-mp-parliamentarian?period=63","zXWQvyeNr0Ip_XiANoshwVd-1yJLPlt8NFYExBweSoA",{"id":612,"title":613,"body":614,"career":635,"description":646,"draft":94,"electorate":647,"extension":286,"image":90,"meta":648,"name":613,"navigation":248,"party":402,"path":649,"role":650,"seo":651,"status":292,"stem":652,"trail":653,"updated":42,"__hash__":721},"people\u002Fpeople\u002Fdon-farrell.md","Don Farrell",{"type":260,"value":615,"toc":633},[616,623,630],[263,617,618,619,622],{},"When the ABC added up 2024-25 family travel claims, Trade Minister Don Farrell came out on top at ",[267,620,621],{},"$48,178",", ahead of Senator Fatima Payman ($41,438), former opposition leader Peter Dutton ($36,542) and Nationals MP Andrew Willcox ($33,758). Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was seventh, at $28,229.",[263,624,625,626,629],{},"IPEA's own quarterly reports, which record each claim when it was paid, show Farrell's family travel at $45,926.84 in 2024-25 and $40,474.54 in 2025-26: ",[267,627,628],{},"$86,401"," over two years.",[263,631,632],{},"Farrell says all his claims complied with the rules. IPEA has not published any review of them, and there is no finding that they broke the rules as they stood. Since January 2026, family members must fly economy, and trips to places other than Canberra are limited to one a year.",{"title":275,"searchDepth":150,"depth":276,"links":634},[],[636,639,642,644],{"year":637,"event":638},"2008","Senator for South Australia (to 2014)",{"year":640,"event":641},"2013","Minister for Sport in the Rudd government",{"year":73,"event":643},"Returns to the Senate for South Australia",{"year":282,"event":645},"Minister for Trade and Tourism, Special Minister of State, and Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate","The trade and tourism minister claimed more family travel than any other federal politician in 2024-25. IPEA's records show $86,401 over two years. No review has found a breach.","Senator for South Australia",{},"\u002Fpeople\u002Fdon-farrell","Minister for Trade and Tourism, and Special Minister of State",{"title":613,"description":646},"people\u002Fdon-farrell",[654,661,668,675,682,689,696,704,711,718],{"date":655,"title":656,"amount":657,"pubTest":301,"category":299,"outcome":300,"source":658},"2024-09-30","Family travel, July to September 2024",7174.08,{"title":659,"url":660},"IPEA expenditure report, Jul-Sep 2024","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsenator-hon-don-farrell-parliamentarian?period=56",{"date":662,"title":663,"amount":664,"pubTest":301,"category":299,"outcome":300,"source":665},"2024-12-31","Family travel, October to December 2024",11318.81,{"title":666,"url":667},"IPEA expenditure report, Oct-Dec 2024","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsenator-hon-don-farrell-parliamentarian?period=57",{"date":669,"title":670,"amount":671,"pubTest":301,"category":299,"outcome":300,"source":672},"2025-03-31","Family travel, January to March 2025",5550.62,{"title":673,"url":674},"IPEA expenditure report, Jan-Mar 2025","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsenator-hon-don-farrell-parliamentarian?period=58",{"date":296,"title":676,"amount":677,"pubTest":301,"category":299,"outcome":300,"note":678,"source":679},"Family travel, April to June 2025",21883.33,"His highest quarter. 2024-25 total by IPEA's figures: $45,926.84. An ABC analysis put his 2024-25 family travel at $48,178, the highest of any federal politician; IPEA reports each claim in the quarter it was paid, which may explain the difference.",{"title":680,"url":681},"IPEA expenditure report, Apr-Jun 2025","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsenator-hon-don-farrell-parliamentarian?period=59",{"date":683,"title":684,"amount":685,"pubTest":301,"category":299,"outcome":300,"source":686},"2025-09-30","Family travel, July to September 2025",14828.67,{"title":687,"url":688},"IPEA expenditure report, Jul-Sep 2025","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsenator-hon-don-farrell-parliamentarian?period=60",{"date":690,"title":691,"amount":692,"pubTest":301,"category":299,"outcome":300,"source":693},"2025-12-31","Family travel, October to December 2025",10566.07,{"title":694,"url":695},"IPEA expenditure report, Oct-Dec 2025","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsenator-hon-don-farrell-parliamentarian?period=61",{"date":697,"title":698,"category":299,"outcome":300,"who":699,"note":700,"source":701},"2026-02","Reported: his wife accompanied him to a function at Uluru","Farrell and his wife","Date and cost of the trip not published. Farrell said he complied with all the rules, called the reports a misrepresentation, and said that as tourism minister he must travel to promote Australian tourism; he also met 20 Red Centre tourism operators.",{"title":702,"url":703},"The Nightly (from news.com.au), 15 Feb 2026","https:\u002F\u002Fthenightly.com.au\u002Fpolitics\u002Ftrade-and-tourism-minister-don-farrell-defends-taxpayer-funded-uluru-trip-with-wife-c-21644255",{"date":705,"title":706,"amount":707,"pubTest":301,"category":299,"outcome":300,"source":708},"2026-03-31","Family travel, January to March 2026",7653.31,{"title":709,"url":710},"IPEA expenditure report, Jan-Mar 2026","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsenator-hon-don-farrell-parliamentarian?period=62",{"date":307,"title":712,"amount":713,"pubTest":301,"category":299,"outcome":300,"note":714,"source":715},"Family or nominee travel, April to June 2026",7426.49,"2025-26 total by IPEA's figures: $40,474.54. IPEA renamed the category 'family or nominee travel' from this quarter.",{"title":716,"url":717},"IPEA expenditure report, Apr-Jun 2026","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsenator-hon-don-farrell-parliamentarian?period=63",{"date":483,"title":484,"category":317,"outcome":318,"note":719,"source":720},"One of eight politicians in IPEA's review of travel around the 2024 Australian Open, with Anika Wells, Michelle Rowland, Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton, Bridget McKenzie, Anne Ruston and Mark Butler. IPEA found the travel 'not inconsistent' with the rules and took no further action. No cost published.",{"title":487,"url":488},"0aYeIWyBoPkBF1Ov-XWcNFZGmJyZ8DpqErvItCGb-VU",{"id":723,"title":724,"body":725,"career":741,"description":750,"draft":94,"electorate":751,"extension":286,"image":90,"meta":752,"name":724,"navigation":248,"party":753,"path":754,"role":755,"seo":756,"status":292,"stem":757,"trail":758,"updated":42,"__hash__":775},"people\u002Fpeople\u002Ffatima-payman.md","Fatima Payman",{"type":260,"value":726,"toc":739},[727,733,736],[263,728,729,730,270],{},"When the ABC ranked federal politicians' family travel for 2024-25, Senator Fatima Payman came second, behind only Trade Minister Don Farrell. IPEA's quarterly figures match the ABC's to the dollar: ",[267,731,732],{},"$41,438",[263,734,735],{},"Most of it was claimed in the second half of 2024, the months around her departure from Labor and the launch of her own party. Her family travel fell to $27,913 in 2025-26, and to $4,305 in the first quarter after the January 2026 rule changes.",[263,737,738],{},"IPEA has published no review of her family travel, and there is no finding that it broke the rules as they stood.",{"title":275,"searchDepth":150,"depth":276,"links":740},[],[742,744,747],{"year":282,"event":743},"Elected Labor Senator for Western Australia",{"year":745,"event":746},"Jul 2024","Quits Labor to sit as an independent",{"year":748,"event":749},"Oct 2024","Launches Australia's Voice","The Australia's Voice senator had the second-highest family travel claims of any federal politician in 2024-25: $41,438. IPEA's records show $69,351 over two years. No review has found a breach.","Western Australia (Senate)",{},"Australia's Voice","\u002Fpeople\u002Ffatima-payman","Senator for Western Australia; leader of Australia's Voice",{"title":724,"description":750},"people\u002Ffatima-payman",[759,764,769],{"date":296,"title":297,"amount":760,"category":299,"outcome":300,"pubTest":301,"note":761,"source":762},41438.22,"Quarterly figures from IPEA: $20,888.90 (Jul-Sep 2024), $16,412.47 (Oct-Dec), $3,573.81 (Jan-Mar 2025), $563.04 (Apr-Jun). The second-highest total of any federal politician that year, according to an ABC analysis. IPEA has published no review of these claims.",{"title":304,"url":763},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsenator-fatima-payman-parliamentarian?period=59",{"date":307,"title":308,"amount":765,"category":299,"outcome":300,"pubTest":301,"note":766,"source":767},27912.91,"Quarterly figures from IPEA: $14,135.54 (Jul-Sep 2025), $4,747.48 (Oct-Dec), $4,725.20 (Jan-Mar 2026), $4,304.69 (Apr-Jun, after the January 2026 rule changes). IPEA has published no review of these claims.",{"title":312,"url":768},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsenator-fatima-payman-parliamentarian?period=63",{"date":770,"title":771,"category":317,"outcome":318,"note":772,"source":773},"2024-08-11","IPEA review of a former staff member's travel, August 2024 to March 2025","IPEA found the staff member's use of travel resources was 'not inconsistent' with the rules.",{"title":774,"url":322},"IPEA published assurance reviews, May 2026","0SHuGQk99DXmyhwykyzPODM6boBezAbYg2-iJFXgZNY",{"id":777,"title":778,"body":779,"career":789,"description":800,"draft":94,"electorate":801,"extension":286,"image":90,"meta":802,"name":778,"navigation":248,"party":803,"path":804,"role":805,"seo":806,"status":292,"stem":807,"trail":808,"updated":42,"__hash__":829},"people\u002Fpeople\u002Fjacinta-nampijinpa-price.md","Jacinta Nampijinpa Price",{"type":260,"value":780,"toc":787},[781,784],[263,782,783],{},"The smallest breach on our list. In August 2024, Senator Price claimed travel allowance for a stay in Canberra from 12 to 18 August, but spent 15 to 17 August in Melbourne on sponsored travel. She hadn't claimed taxpayer-funded flights to Melbourne, but she had claimed the Canberra allowance for the night of the 15th.",[263,785,786],{},"She told IPEA it was an oversight, and repaid $387.50 including a 25% penalty. A separate IPEA review of her sponsored trip to a Gold Coast conference in 2023 found nothing wrong.",{"title":275,"searchDepth":150,"depth":276,"links":788},[],[790,792,794,797],{"year":282,"event":791},"Elected Country Liberal Senator for the Northern Territory; sits with the Nationals",{"year":510,"event":793},"Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians (to May 2025)",{"year":795,"event":796},"May 2025","Moves to the Liberal party room",{"year":798,"event":799},"2026","Shadow Minister for Skills and Training and Shadow Minister for Small Business","The Northern Territory senator repaid $387.50 after claiming a night's travel allowance in Canberra when she was actually in Melbourne, which she called an oversight.","Northern Territory (Senate)",{},"Country Liberal (Liberal party room)","\u002Fpeople\u002Fjacinta-nampijinpa-price","Senator for the Northern Territory; Shadow Minister for Skills and Training and Small Business",{"title":778,"description":800},"people\u002Fjacinta-nampijinpa-price",[809,816,825],{"date":810,"title":811,"category":317,"outcome":318,"note":812,"source":813},"2023-10-19","Flights to the Gold Coast for the Centre for Independent Studies' Consilium conference","IPEA reviewed politicians' sponsored engagements and found her claims (flights only) consistent with the rules, with nothing duplicating what sponsors paid for. No cost published.",{"title":814,"url":815},"IPEA assurance review, Senator Price, travel to the Gold Coast","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2025-10\u002FAssurance%20Review_Senator%20Jacinta%20Nampijinpa%20Price_Travel%20to%20the%20Gold%20Coast.pdf",{"date":817,"title":818,"amount":819,"category":820,"outcome":412,"note":821,"source":822},"2024-08-15","Travel allowance claimed for a night in Canberra when she was in Melbourne on sponsored travel",310,"accommodation","Her Canberra stay from 12 to 18 August overlapped sponsored travel to Melbourne from 15 to 17 August. She told IPEA the claim was an oversight. She hadn't claimed taxpayer-funded flights to Melbourne. Amount before the penalty, calculated from IPEA's invoice of $387.50.",{"title":823,"url":824},"IPEA assurance review, Senator Price, published May 2026","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2026-05\u002FAssurance%20Review%20-%20Senator%20Jacinta%20Nampijinpa%20Price.pdf",{"date":545,"title":826,"amount":827,"category":479,"outcome":480,"source":828},"Repaid the travel allowance plus a 25% penalty",387.5,{"title":823,"url":824},"N9GbbSYSE2mcWov82y6mUOR3O97CooMpbgnBk9QVdAI",{"id":831,"title":832,"body":833,"career":846,"description":861,"draft":94,"electorate":862,"extension":286,"image":90,"meta":863,"name":832,"navigation":248,"party":864,"path":865,"role":866,"seo":867,"status":868,"stem":869,"trail":870,"updated":42,"__hash__":891},"people\u002Fpeople\u002Flinda-reynolds.md","Linda Reynolds",{"type":260,"value":834,"toc":844},[835,838,841],[263,836,837],{},"IPEA found the problem during a routine check of business-class flights: in May and June 2025, Linda Reynolds's partner had flown business class from Perth to Melbourne three times, on her family travel entitlement, without her.",[263,839,840],{},"Reynolds told IPEA he was on his way to join her in Canberra, stopping in Melbourne to see and stay with their son. IPEA's ruling was simple: family travel is for spending time with the politician, not wider family. Her work was in Canberra, not Melbourne, and on two of the trips she hadn't even left yet herself. His flights on to Canberra were fine.",[263,842,843],{},"She was invoiced $8,778.01 including penalties, and has repaid it. The travel happened in her last weeks as a senator: her term ended on 30 June 2025.",{"title":275,"searchDepth":150,"depth":276,"links":845},[],[847,850,852,855,858],{"year":848,"event":849},"2014","Liberal Senator for Western Australia",{"year":387,"event":851},"Minister for Defence (to March 2021)",{"year":853,"event":854},"2021","Minister for Government Services and the NDIS (to May 2022)",{"year":856,"event":857},"Jun 2025","Leaves the Senate; succeeded by One Nation's Tyron Whitten",{"year":859,"event":860},"Oct 2025","IPEA invoices $8,778.01 for her partner's travel","The former defence minister repaid $8,778.01 after the expenses watchdog found her partner flew business class to Melbourne three times, at taxpayers' expense, to see their son, in her final weeks as a senator.","Western Australia (Senate, 2014 to 2025)",{},"Liberal","\u002Fpeople\u002Flinda-reynolds","Former Senator for Western Australia",{"title":832,"description":861},"former","people\u002Flinda-reynolds",[871,880,885],{"date":872,"title":873,"amount":874,"category":299,"outcome":412,"who":875,"note":876,"source":877},"2025-05-09","Partner's business-class flights from Perth to Melbourne on 9 May, 30 May and 21 June 2025, plus two Comcar trips",7022.41,"Her partner (nominee)","Reynolds told IPEA he was travelling to join her in Canberra via stopovers in Melbourne to see and stay with their son. IPEA found the Melbourne legs weren't to join her, since her work was in Canberra, and that on the two May trips she hadn't yet begun her own travel. Family travel rules cover time with the politician, not wider family. IPEA found it while checking business-class flights. Amount before the penalty, calculated from IPEA's invoices of $8,778.01.",{"title":878,"url":879},"IPEA assurance review, Hon Linda Reynolds CSC, published May 2026","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2026-05\u002FAssurance%20Review%20-%20Hon%20Linda%20Reynolds%20CSC%20-%20family%20travel.pdf",{"date":881,"title":882,"category":299,"outcome":318,"who":875,"note":883,"source":884},"2025-05-11","Partner's flights to Canberra to join her on 11 May, 1 June and 23 June 2025","IPEA found these consistent with the rules. No cost published.",{"title":878,"url":879},{"date":886,"title":887,"amount":888,"category":479,"outcome":480,"note":889,"source":890},"2025-10-08","Invoiced $8,598.99 for three airfares and $179.02 for two Comcar trips, including 25% penalties",8778.01,"Reynolds wrote to IPEA again after the invoices were issued; IPEA says that didn't change the outcome. The invoices have been repaid in full.",{"title":878,"url":879},"_FvvxYnnISiREQPVD92vJ3T2EsfdpfKDNJQ0iKXbP48",{"id":893,"title":894,"body":895,"career":908,"description":915,"draft":94,"electorate":916,"extension":286,"image":90,"meta":917,"name":894,"navigation":248,"party":402,"path":918,"role":919,"seo":920,"status":292,"stem":921,"trail":922,"updated":42,"__hash__":941},"people\u002Fpeople\u002Flouise-miller-frost.md","Louise Miller-Frost",{"type":260,"value":896,"toc":906},[897,900,903],[263,898,899],{},"In January 2023, Louise Miller-Frost was due in Western Australia for site visits and hearings of the Workforce Australia Employment Services select committee, starting on the 29th. She and her husband flew to Perth on the 26th.",[263,901,902],{},"She told IPEA she went early to get used to the time difference, after ten months of campaigning, an election and a hectic first nine months as an MP. IPEA accepted the committee work was genuine and found that part of the trip within the rules, but said the early flights were for personal reasons. She could reasonably have flown the day before.",[263,904,905],{},"She repaid the airfares plus a 25% penalty: $4,183.10.",{"title":275,"searchDepth":150,"depth":276,"links":907},[],[909,911,913],{"year":282,"event":910},"Elected Labor Member for Boothby (SA); previously CEO of St Vincent de Paul Society SA",{"year":37,"event":912},"Re-elected",{"year":397,"event":914},"IPEA finds part of a January 2023 trip broke the rules; repays $4,183.10","The Labor MP repaid $4,183.10 after the expenses watchdog found she and her husband flew to Perth at taxpayers' expense three days before her committee work began, for personal reasons.","Boothby (SA)",{},"\u002Fpeople\u002Flouise-miller-frost","Member for Boothby",{"title":894,"description":915},"people\u002Flouise-miller-frost",[923,932,937],{"date":924,"title":925,"amount":926,"category":299,"outcome":412,"who":927,"note":928,"source":929},"2023-01-26","Flights from Adelaide to Perth for her and her husband, three days before her committee work began",3346.48,"Miller-Frost and her husband","She told IPEA she went early to acclimatise to the time difference, after an exhausting year of campaigning and her first months as an MP. IPEA found the trip was for personal reasons and she could reasonably have flown the day before. No travel allowance was claimed for those days. Amount before the penalty, calculated from IPEA's invoice of $4,183.10.",{"title":930,"url":931},"IPEA assurance review 2025\u002F016, published May 2026","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2026-05\u002FAssurance_Review_Memorandum-Louise_Miller-Frost-family_travel.pdf",{"date":933,"title":934,"category":299,"outcome":318,"who":927,"note":935,"source":936},"2023-01-29","Workforce Australia select committee site visits and hearings in Perth and Albany, with her husband","IPEA found this part of the trip consistent with the rules. No cost published.",{"title":930,"url":931},{"date":545,"title":938,"amount":939,"category":479,"outcome":480,"source":940},"Repaid the airfares plus a 25% penalty",4183.1,{"title":930,"url":931},"R2IEbMKCUFzJySXYXbaKV08rhXaIP-noi5B7KEuzEeg",{"id":943,"title":944,"body":945,"career":955,"description":962,"draft":94,"electorate":963,"extension":286,"image":90,"meta":964,"name":944,"navigation":248,"party":402,"path":965,"role":966,"seo":967,"status":292,"stem":968,"trail":969,"updated":42,"__hash__":992},"people\u002Fpeople\u002Fmeryl-swanson.md","Meryl Swanson",{"type":260,"value":946,"toc":953},[947,950],[263,948,949],{},"Meryl Swanson's review was part of IPEA's series on family travel outside trips to Canberra. It looked at a Melbourne and Sunshine Coast trip in October 2022 and a Queensland trip in January 2023.",[263,951,952],{},"She told IPEA she went to Melbourne for a lunch of the Parliamentary Friends of Viticulture, which she co-chairs, before travelling on to the Sunshine Coast for a personal engagement. IPEA accepted the Melbourne leg but found the flights to the Sunshine Coast for her and her husband were personal. She repaid them plus a 25% penalty: $1,016.58.",{"title":275,"searchDepth":150,"depth":276,"links":954},[],[956,958,960],{"year":73,"event":957},"Elected Labor Member for Paterson (NSW)",{"year":282,"event":959},"Chair, House Standing Committee on Agriculture",{"year":397,"event":961},"IPEA finds one flight broke the rules; repays $1,016.58","The Labor MP repaid $1,016.58 after the expenses watchdog found she and her husband flew from Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast at taxpayers' expense for a personal engagement.","Paterson (NSW)",{},"\u002Fpeople\u002Fmeryl-swanson","Member for Paterson",{"title":944,"description":962},"people\u002Fmeryl-swanson",[970,978,984,989],{"date":971,"title":972,"category":299,"outcome":318,"who":973,"note":974,"source":975},"2022-10-30","Trip to Melbourne, with her husband, for a Parliamentary Friends of Viticulture lunch she co-chairs","Swanson and her husband","IPEA found this 'not inconsistent' with the rules: it accepted her explanation and found no evidence to the contrary. No cost published.",{"title":976,"url":977},"IPEA assurance review, Ms Meryl Swanson MP, published May 2026","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2026-05\u002FAssurance%20Review%20-%20Ms%20Meryl%20Swanson%20MP%20-%20family%20reunion%20travel_0.pdf",{"date":979,"title":980,"amount":981,"category":299,"outcome":412,"who":973,"note":982,"source":983},"2022-10-31","Flights from Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast for her and her husband, for a personal engagement",813.26,"IPEA found the travel was for personal reasons, not parliamentary business. Amount before the penalty, calculated from IPEA's invoice of $1,016.58.",{"title":976,"url":977},{"date":985,"title":986,"category":299,"outcome":318,"note":987,"source":988},"2023-01-14","Trip to Brisbane and the Gold Coast, returning to Newcastle the next day","IPEA found this 'not inconsistent' with the rules. No cost published.",{"title":976,"url":977},{"date":545,"title":938,"amount":990,"category":479,"outcome":480,"source":991},1016.58,{"title":976,"url":977},"BPqKIjjrhXCjraKEdjgdyP17-2z7LEaYsAuxZGcLj7E",{"id":994,"title":995,"body":996,"career":1009,"description":1022,"draft":94,"electorate":1023,"extension":286,"image":90,"meta":1024,"name":995,"navigation":248,"party":402,"path":1025,"role":1016,"seo":1026,"status":292,"stem":1027,"trail":1028,"updated":42,"__hash__":1047},"people\u002Fpeople\u002Fmichelle-rowland.md","Michelle Rowland",{"type":260,"value":997,"toc":1007},[998,1001,1004],[263,999,1000],{},"Michelle Rowland's family travel came under scrutiny during the December 2025 expenses controversy. She disclosed that IPEA had already advised her that part of the family travel on a week-long work trip to Western Australia in July 2023 was outside the guidelines.",[263,1002,1003],{},"In March 2026, IPEA's figures confirmed she had repaid $7,932 in airfares for three family members, plus a 25% penalty of $1,983, applied automatically because the money wasn't repaid within 28 days.",[263,1005,1006],{},"Under the new rules, she can still bring her husband to portfolio events she is invited to, but he must now fly economy rather than business class.",{"title":275,"searchDepth":150,"depth":276,"links":1008},[],[1010,1013,1015,1017,1019],{"year":1011,"event":1012},"2010","Elected Labor Member for Greenway (NSW)",{"year":282,"event":1014},"Minister for Communications",{"year":37,"event":1016},"Attorney-General",{"year":394,"event":1018},"Discloses that IPEA advised part of a 2023 family trip was outside the guidelines",{"year":1020,"event":1021},"Mar 2026","Repays $7,932 in family airfares plus a $1,983 penalty","The Attorney-General repaid $9,915 in family airfares and penalty after the expenses watchdog found part of a 2023 work trip to Western Australia fell outside the rules.","Greenway (NSW)",{},"\u002Fpeople\u002Fmichelle-rowland",{"title":995,"description":1022},"people\u002Fmichelle-rowland",[1029,1038,1044],{"date":1030,"title":1031,"amount":1032,"category":299,"outcome":412,"who":1033,"note":1034,"source":1035},"2023-07","Family airfares between Perth and Sydney during a week-long work trip to Western Australia",7932,"Three family members","The trip's claims totalled about $21,000, including more than $16,000 in family flights. IPEA advised Rowland in 2025 that a portion of the family reunion travel was outside the guidelines; she disclosed this in December 2025.",{"title":1036,"url":1037},"ABC News, 4 Mar 2026","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.abc.net.au\u002Fnews\u002F2026-03-04\u002Fattorney-general-michelle-rowland-pays-taxpayer-back-for-flights\u002F106416782",{"date":1039,"title":1040,"amount":1041,"category":479,"outcome":480,"note":1042,"source":1043},"2026-03","Repaid the family airfares plus a 25% penalty of $1,983",9915,"$7,932 in airfares plus a $1,983 penalty, the automatic 25% loading on incorrect claims not repaid within 28 days. IPEA published the figures on 4 March 2026.",{"title":1036,"url":1037},{"date":483,"title":484,"category":317,"outcome":318,"note":1045,"source":1046},"One of eight politicians in IPEA's review of travel around the 2024 Australian Open, with Anika Wells, Don Farrell, Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton, Bridget McKenzie, Anne Ruston and Mark Butler. IPEA found the travel 'not inconsistent' with the rules and took no further action. No cost published.",{"title":487,"url":488},"4Lbs0pjes9Peaf_zaQ4h9jGQjDALHdFzjAHkLfq5q70",{"id":1049,"title":1050,"body":1051,"career":1064,"description":1074,"draft":94,"electorate":1075,"extension":286,"image":90,"meta":1076,"name":1050,"navigation":248,"party":864,"path":1077,"role":1078,"seo":1079,"status":868,"stem":1080,"trail":1081,"updated":42,"__hash__":1095},"people\u002Fpeople\u002Fpeter-dutton.md","Peter Dutton",{"type":260,"value":1052,"toc":1062},[1053,1059],[263,1054,1055,1056,270],{},"As opposition leader, Peter Dutton had the third-highest family travel claims of any federal politician in 2024-25, according to an ABC analysis. By IPEA's quarterly figures, it came to ",[267,1057,1058],{},"$38,773",[263,1060,1061],{},"IPEA has published no review of his family travel, and there is no finding that it broke the rules as they stood. He lost his seat at the May 2025 election.",{"title":275,"searchDepth":150,"depth":276,"links":1063},[],[1065,1068,1070,1072],{"year":1066,"event":1067},"2001","Elected Liberal Member for Dickson (Qld)",{"year":282,"event":1069},"Leader of the Opposition",{"year":795,"event":1071},"Loses Dickson to Labor's Ali France at the federal election",{"year":798,"event":1073},"Joins the boards of LifeFlight Commercial and the Queensland Investment Corporation","The former opposition leader had the third-highest family travel claims of any federal politician in 2024-25. IPEA's records show $38,773 that year. No review has found a breach.","Dickson (Qld), 2001 to 2025",{},"\u002Fpeople\u002Fpeter-dutton","Former Leader of the Opposition",{"title":1050,"description":1074},"people\u002Fpeter-dutton",[1082,1084,1090],{"date":483,"title":484,"category":317,"outcome":318,"note":598,"source":1083},{"title":487,"url":488},{"date":296,"title":297,"amount":1085,"category":299,"outcome":300,"pubTest":1086,"note":1087,"source":1088},38772.83,"Family travel, July 2024 to September 2025","Quarterly figures from IPEA: $12,858.55 (Jul-Sep 2024), $12,463.76 (Oct-Dec), $4,990.39 (Jan-Mar 2025), $8,460.13 (Apr-Jun, including the election campaign). An ABC analysis put his 2024-25 total at $36,542, third highest; IPEA reports claims in the quarter they were paid, which may explain the difference.",{"title":304,"url":1089},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fhon-peter-dutton-parliamentarian?period=59",{"date":683,"title":1091,"amount":1092,"category":299,"outcome":300,"pubTest":1086,"source":1093},"Family travel paid after he left parliament, July to September 2025",237.02,{"title":687,"url":1094},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ipea.gov.au\u002Fhon-peter-dutton-parliamentarian?period=60","WNNsHMhX8HoOdToovKj_j4Az7sYEj9pFIWeuFYdGopA",{"id":1097,"title":1098,"body":1099,"career":1112,"description":1120,"draft":94,"electorate":751,"extension":286,"image":90,"meta":1121,"name":1098,"navigation":248,"party":1122,"path":1123,"role":1124,"seo":1125,"status":292,"stem":1126,"trail":1127,"updated":42,"__hash__":1142},"people\u002Fpeople\u002Ftyron-whitten.md","Tyron Whitten",{"type":260,"value":1100,"toc":1110},[1101,1104,1107],[263,1102,1103],{},"Within weeks of taking his Senate seat in July 2025, Tyron Whitten was regularly catching taxis around Perth at taxpayers' expense. IPEA's routine checks picked up 27 trips between July and September, and 18 more by November.",[263,1105,1106],{},"The rules don't allow taxis when a politician could reasonably use their private-plated car, or the allowance paid instead of one. Whitten was waiting for his car to be delivered, and was being paid the allowance in the meantime. He told IPEA he didn't know he was receiving it, and hadn't been properly briefed. IPEA noted the allowance had been covered in induction sessions he attended.",[263,1108,1109],{},"He asked to repay, and paid back $3,391.68 including a 25% penalty.",{"title":275,"searchDepth":150,"depth":276,"links":1111},[],[1113,1115,1117],{"year":1066,"event":1114},"Co-founds Whittens, an earthworks and construction business",{"year":37,"event":1116},"Elected One Nation Senator for Western Australia; term began 1 July",{"year":1118,"event":1119},"Sep 2026","IPEA finds his taxi use broke the rules; repays $3,391.68","The One Nation senator repaid $3,391.68 after taking 45 taxis around Perth at taxpayers' expense while he was already being paid an allowance to cover that travel.",{},"One Nation","\u002Fpeople\u002Ftyron-whitten","Senator for Western Australia",{"title":1098,"description":1120},"people\u002Ftyron-whitten",[1128,1136],{"date":1129,"title":1130,"amount":1131,"category":420,"outcome":412,"note":1132,"source":1133},"2025-07-01","45 taxi trips around Perth, July to November 2025, while receiving an allowance meant to cover that travel",2713.34,"27 trips from July to September and 18 more from late September to November. 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