Energy & Renewables – MP Legal Expenses
An overarching quick question: minister, in the past 18 months have you as an individual been subject, or party to, any Supreme Court matters?
An overarching quick question: minister, in the past 18 months have you as an individual been subject, or party to, any Supreme Court matters?
Premier, in the past 18 months have you, as an individual, been a subject of, or a party to, any Supreme Court matters?
With no timeline, no concrete plans, and no extra funding for reform, why would anyone believe Jeremy Rockliff is serious about strengthening the Integrity Commission?
The Rockliff Government must come clean about the $250,000 in taxpayer money spent on legal fees on behalf of unknown MPs for unknown reasons.
It is plain to see, through the debate across the course of the day today, that we have lost trust in government and we believe we share that with the Tasmanian public.
What does Eric Abetz think should be celebrated about Trump’s win?
We have a job here to do. We need to uphold the independence of, and public confidence in, the judiciary.
The Integrity Commission has been scathing of the “legislative and resourcing constraints” placed upon them by the Liberal government, in their Annual Report tabled today.
The Integrity Commission, following the 2021 election, called the kind of process that your party engages in at election time to allocate this funding as 'indirect electoral bribery'. During the election this year, the Director of Public Integrity, Geoffrey Watson SC, rightly called it pork barrelling, fair and square. These are decisions that are made by people inside the Liberal Party. I don't know, and the community doesn't know, what is the criteria? Who's making the decisions?
Premier, is it government policy to pay the private legal fees of backbenchers should it be related to their work in some way or another?