Jacinta Price bills taxpayers $76,000 on business class flights

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Cost of business class travel for the Coalition frontbencher and No-campaigner soars

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Now, Price is fully entitled to taxpayer-funded travel while performing her parliamentary duties. And as a senator for the Northern Territory, she covers more distance than most. Her predecessor,But not even McMahon, who racked up about $18,000 in airline bills in her last nine months as a senator , was flying at the rate Price is., whose regional Queensland electorate of Maranoa is one of the vastest in the country, billed for $42,000 worth of flights in his final year as agriculture minister.

But less common have been politicians putting their privileges where their mouths are and resigning membership of the carrier’s exclusive Chairman’s Lounge, the airline’s airport bolthole for the rich and influential.have declined to take up the offer of membership extended to all parliamentarians.

 

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