Latest ministerial expenses and credit card spending out
The latest round of government ministers' expenses and credit card records has been released.The last release of credit cards records for ministers and their staff -- for April 2003 until February this year -- revealed excessive and wrong spending.The doc
The latest round of government ministers' expenses and credit card records has been released.
The last release of credit cards records for ministers and their staff -- for April 2003 until February this year -- revealed excessive and wrong spending.
The documents showed several ministers breaking the rules -- especially when it came to using them for personal spending.
Labour's Shane Jones, Mita Ririnui and Chris Carter were demoted over their behaviour while others were left embarrassed by revelations of excessively expensive dinners and drinks.
An earlier release of credit card expenditure for ministers in 2009 saw Phil Heatley resign from Cabinet after admitting he misused his credit card.
However he was reinstated after an Auditor-General's inquiry found that while he spent $1402 of taxpayers' money wrongly he did not intentionally break the rules. The Auditor-General then started the wider review.
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