With the Speaker under increasing pressure to stand aside,further claims reveal that as a committee chair she claimed travel benefits even when the committee was not conducting hearingsBronwyn Bishop claimed taxpayer-funded travel benefits for her work as a committee chairwoman on more than 15 occasions for times and places when the committee was not conducting hearings, a review of historic travel claims reveals.
Bishop, and who is under increasing pressure to stand aside as Speaker over the travel claim controversy,said on Thursday she would repay claims made for secret meetings with unnamed sources associated with her committee work, which coincided with the interstate weddings of two Liberal colleagues.
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Source: theguardian.com