Highlight text to share via Facebook and TwitterFinance Minister Mathias Cormann has been caught up in the MP expenses scandal. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann is the latest federal government MP to be caught up in the political entitlements scandal after reports he claimed more than $23,000 for trips to the resort town of Broome. A spokeswoman for Senator Cormann told Fairfax that all claimed expenses for trips to Broome were legitimate, saying as a senator his job involved travel across his "very large electorate". The latest claims come after Prime Minister Turnbull this week pledged there would be more transparency on political entitlements following a series of expense scandals. In response to the Ley scandal, Turnbull announced the establishment of a new body to oversight political expenses, describing it as an "independent parliamentary expenses authority".

Source: Huffington Post January 14, 2017 20:50 UTC