$5300 for Barnaby Joyce’s three NRL games

by Elizabeth Minter | Aug 12, 2020 | Dubious Travel Claims, QED, The Nationals

Dubious Travel Claims | QED | The Nationals

Barnaby Joyce - no idea Chinese involved.

$5300 for Barnaby Joyce’s three NRL games

September 2012

Barnaby Joyce charged taxpayers more than $5300 for attending three NRL games and said he would not be repaying any money because the trips were a legitimate part of the job.

Mr Joyce, who was given free tickets to watch a State of Origin game and two NRL finals in corporate boxes, claimed flights to Sydney, Comcars and overnight travel allowances to the value of $4615.

He also charged taxpayers $741 for a family member to fly to Sydney and join him at the NRL grand final, according to The Age.

When asked why he claimed for family travel, he said he had probably taken his wife or one of his daughters because he did not get to see his family often.

What's a rort?

Conflicts of Interest

Redirecting funding to pet hobbies; offering jobs to the boys without a proper tender process; secretly bankrolling candidates in elections; taking up private sector jobs in apparent breach of parliament’s code of ethics, the list goes on.

Deceptive Conduct

Claiming that greenhouse gas emissions have gone down when the facts clearly show otherwise; breaking the law on responding to FoI requests; reneging on promised legislation; claiming credit for legislation that doesn’t exist; accepting donations that breach rules. You get the drift of what behaviour this category captures.

Election Rorts

In the months before the last election, the Government spent hundreds of millions of dollars of Australian taxpayers’ money on grants for sports, community safety, rural development programs and more. Many of these grants were disproportionally awarded to marginal seats, with limited oversight and even less accountability.

Dubious Travel Claims

Ministerial business that just happens to coincide with a grand final or a concert; electorate business that must be conducted in prime tourist locations, or at the same time as party fundraisers. All above board, maybe, but does it really pass the pub test? Or does it just reinforce the fact that politicians take the public for mugs?

$5300 for Barnaby Joyce’s three NRL games

$5300 for Barnaby Joyce’s three NRL games

What's a rort?

Conflicts of Interest

Deceptive Conduct

Election Rorts

Dubious Travel Claims

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