Paul Kelly on Mathias Cormann’s free flights: Clearly he’s guilty of an oversight in relation to the holiday. It looks bad but unless we get more information I think this is more a coincidence than anything else. MORE: speers
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Mathias Cormann blames free family holiday on 'administrative error'Mathias Cormann has said he believed he had paid for a free family holiday to Singapore actually paid for by a company which had a multi-million-dollar contract with his department.
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Cormann says failure to pay for family flights was an oversight, not linked to contractMathias Cormann says he immediately paid back travel company Helloworld more than $2,700, for private flights for himself and his family to Singapore, after media contacted him about the matter.
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Mathias Cormann solves the parable of loaves, fishes and a credit cardFinance Minister Mathias Cormann has attempted to explain the mystery of his free flights and an apparently magical credit card.
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Mathias Cormann solves the parable of loaves, fishes and a credit cardFinance Minister Mathias Cormann has attempted to explain the mystery of his free flights and an apparently magical credit card.
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'Oversight' blamed for ministers free travel arrangement | Sky News AustraliaOversight has been blamed for a free overseas trip Finance Minister Mathias Cormann and his family received.\n\nTravel company Helloword, controlled by Liberal Party treasurer Andrew Burnes, paid around $3,000 for Mr Corman's Singapore trip in the wake of it securing a three-year Finance Department contract.\n\nThe Finance Minister has since repaid the waived costs in full, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison insisting the incident was a case of 'administrative error.'\n\n\n
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'Oversight' blamed for ministers free travel arrangement | Sky News AustraliaOversight has been blamed for a free overseas trip Finance Minister Mathias Cormann and his family received.\n\nTravel company Helloword, controlled by Liberal Party treasurer Andrew Burnes, paid around $3,000 for Mr Corman's Singapore trip in the wake of it securing a three-year Finance Department contract.\n\nThe Finance Minister has since repaid the waived costs in full, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison insisting the incident was a case of 'administrative error.'\n\n\n
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Australian households to pay $200 to subsidise solar panels | Sky News AustraliaAustralian households are being forced to pay just under $200 in 2019 to subsidise rooftop solar panels, new figures show.\n\nAccording to The Australian, federal and state-based renewable energy rebates this year are forecast to soar by $500 million to $1.7 billion.\n\nIn 2018, subsidies amounted to $134 per household. \n\n\n
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