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Tennis, cricket and rugby: Warren Truss a fan of them all

by Elizabeth Minter | Aug 14, 2020 | Dubious Travel Claims, QED, The Nationals

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Tennis, cricket and rugby: Warren Truss a fan of them all

2014
Warren Truss was the most prolific politician attendee of sporting events while travelling in 2014, claiming $8,692 worth of travel expenses around the times he was also watching sport, according to Guardian Australia.

Truss took in two days of the Australian Open, two days of Ashes Test matches, the third State of Origin game and the Australia v France rugby union Test.

According to the expense declarations, Truss was acting prime minister during several of these dates. In total, Truss claimed $8,692 worth of travel expenses around the times he was also watching sport.

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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?

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