‘I’m not paying back a cent’: Laming refuses to repay $10k in travel expenses

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Outgoing Queensland MP Andrew Laming blamed the deletion of a year’s worth of emails for his inability to prove a 2019 trip with his family was not parliamentary business. auspol

When asked if he would pay the money back, Mr Laming toldMr Laming said he was not sure whether the IPEA could compel him to repay the money.

“I don’t think this is all independent,” he said. “I think this was a predetermined outcome, right from the start.”The IPEA audit found the member for the bayside Brisbane seat of Bowman was not on parliamentary business when he travelled in June 2019 for a week accompanied by his wife and children. “The question was, ‘What was your purpose to travel to Tasmania?’ and I gave the dominant purpose,” he said.

“It’s about value for money to do it while you’re there. It’s a great passion of mine, so I’ve gone around to three or four sites because Tasmania leads Queensland in this area of use of these products for building boardwalks and active transport pathways,” he said.

 

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As a tax payer can we just go grab $10000 worth of things from his property/ies? Or just cause the equivalent damage to said property/ies?

Emails have both a sender and a receiver address. Is he saying that he not only deleted them from his account but was also able to delete them from other people's accounts? Surely that's illegal.

Peter_Fox59 Who deletes a year’s worth of emails?

Destroying official government documentation is a criminal offence. I do hope Mr Laming can find those emails, hate to see him charged with a criminal offence.

Parliamentary version of the dog ate my homework

Not even satire. chaser

Peter_Fox59 LNPDisgrace VoteThemAllOut2022

just another politician expecting taxpayer handouts. deduct it from his final pay. it he cannot prove the trip with for business, it was not. same for the rest of us workers

Dog ate my homework. These crooks make me sick.

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