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he wrongly charged taxpayers for a domestic flight and a government chauffeur.
Nationals MP George Christensen paid back more than $2100 in taxpayer funds after an audit by the independent expenses watchdog found he wrongly charged taxpayers for a domestic flight and a government chauffeur.Instead of returning to his home base in north Queensland after Parliament finished sitting in the nation's capital in March 2018, he claimed $125.40 for a Comcar to Canberra Airport and $136.
The audit by the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority , released on Monday, found Mr Christensen breached expenses rules for charging taxpayers for the travel on March 30 that year, which was not used for the "dominant purpose" of parliamentary business.He used the travel to link up with an overseas trip during which he visited Rome and Israel before arriving in the Philippines on April 23, 2018, according to Coalition sources who declined to be named.
The Queensland MP returned to Australia on April 30, spending a little over a month in the country before jetting back to Manila on June 2 of that year.
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