[size=6]Bronwyn Bishop reportedly claimed $6,000 for 160km trip by private plane[/size]
Saturday 1 August 2015 10.39 AEST

Bronwyn Bishop reportedly spent more than $6,000 to hire a luxury corporate aircraft to transport her 160km from Sydney to Nowra – a journey of just over two hours by car.

The trip, to attend a Liberal party fundraiser in Berry, came two weeks after the Speaker controversially took a helicopter ride from Melbourne to Geelong, News Corp Australia reports.

She has spent so fucking much tax payers money on stupid shit like attending weddings it's not funny.

A 1%r if I ever saw one.

-PB

[size=6]Bronwyn Bishop expenses scandal taken to next level, says Bill Shorten[/size]
August 1, 2015 - 12:34PM
Adam Gartrell
National Political Correspondent

New claims surrounding Bronwyn Bishop's expensive charter travel have taken the scandal to "the next level" and the Prime Minister can no longer ignore demands for accountability, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says.

The federal Speaker spent more than $6000 of taxpayers' money to charter a luxury aircraft to travel to the NSW south coast just two weeks after her infamous helicopter ride in 2014, News Corp reported. It is understood she attended several events, including Liberal fundraisers, in the towns of Nowra and Berry on November 22.

But Mrs Bishop's office is refusing to reveal whether the Nowra charter was arranged by the same political lobbyist, Andrew Gibbs, who paid to organise the now notorious $5000 helicopter charter from Melbourne to Geelong on November 5.

Fairfax Media revealed last month that Mr Gibbs is best friends with Mrs Bishop's chief of staff, Damien Jones.

Mr Shorten says these suggestions are "very serious".

"These reports take the seriousness of Bronwyn Bishop's misconduct to the next level," he said on Saturday. "If Mrs Bishop's personal relationships influenced her decision to repeatedly hire a particular company, then that is incredibly serious."

Bishop resigning as Speaker.

I always thought she looked like Cruella De Vil.

Whenever she wears sunnies she looks like the Joker IMO

I wonder what the andrew bolts and alan jones of the world will write and talk about ? Would they say its an indictment of the lnp or try to somehow try to put the spotlight on labour which the hun hass already

Sunday Mail was tearing into LNP by the looks. News Ltd might be backing the ALP already rofl.

-PB

Kinda sad it's ending. The government have done dozens of despicable things this term but none have gotten anywhere near the traction they deserve like this one has.

This however, this gets the peoples attention because nothing angers the masses more than feeling like they have somehow been robbed.

=d>

I do hope we get a crack down on spending. We cannot be fed BS about expenses when we're also being fed a line about how poor we are and how wrecked the global economy is.

oh dear Tony Burke at it again......

Your absence has been conspicuous and your return when a Labor politician is getting some criticism is predictable :lol:

I've been on business trips where my family have come along with me and we've stayed on later for a holiday. I've had to pay for my family's flights however if I worked in a job that required me to be away from home for the majority of the year, having the ability to have my family come along with me once or twice a year is probably something that would make it more palatable. Whether they all needed to fly business class or not is another matter I guess.

Don't think it's even in the same league comparable to Bronnie's rorts but batty knows that of course ;)

Oh and it looks like Pyney's at it again too...


Edited by mcjules: 7/8/2015 08:08:18 AM