‘Cheap politics’: Morrison defends $4000 trip to Sydney on Father’s Day weekend | CroweDM
Prime Minister Scott Morrison will continue flying between Sydney and Canberra under exemptions from health rules that restrict movement, arguing the government “still needs to function” and he must be able to cross the border to do his job.
Mr Morrison said Labor disability services spokesman Bill Shorten was playing “cheap politics” on the issue by criticising the weekend flights because all federal MPs knew they qualified for exemptions when going to Canberra for work. “But the suggestion that somehow this was an unusual arrangement for members of Parliament, indeed ministers, well, that just wouldn’t be true.”Mr Morrison flew from Canberra to Sydney last Friday one of the Royal Australian Air Force’s business jets, a Dassault Falcon 7X, and returned to Canberra early on Monday morning.
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