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Ground control to Senator Sarah: $50k family flights are officially grounded · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Green Senator Sarah Hanson Young has
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  Speaker 1: finally addressed the controversy over her use of taxpayer funded
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  Speaker 1: entitlements that gave her husband, a lobbyist, fifty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: in family reunion flights. It's the scandal that cost Communications
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  Speaker 1: and Sports Minister Anika Wells and other senior political figures
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  Speaker 1: from across the spectrum a huge amount of skin late
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  Speaker 1: last year, the revelation that politicians were using hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in legitimate entitlements to fly partners and
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  Speaker 1: kids around the country, including to major sporting events and
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  Speaker 1: holiday destinations. Hanson Young, who is a ruthless pursuer of
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  Speaker 1: wrongdoing by other politicians, says she understands the community's expectations
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  Speaker 1: have changed.
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  Speaker 2: Oh look, I know there's been some questions raised about
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  Speaker 2: this and I've had it all checked by the independent authority.
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  Speaker 2: It's all been above board. But let me say, Pete,
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  Speaker 2: I've made a decision that going forward, I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to use the entitlement because it's just not worth the
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  Speaker 2: stress and the attention that it brings on too families,
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  Speaker 2: And I don't begrudge anybody else for using it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that's up to them, that's their personal choice. But going forward,
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  Speaker 2: I won't.
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  Speaker 1: Be The Federal Liberals are leaping overboard as fast as
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  Speaker 1: they can, with Susan Lee's front benches quitting their roles
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  Speaker 1: to back the leadership challenge of rival Angus Taylor. The
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  Speaker 1: Liberals will meet at nine am Friday to elect a
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  Speaker 1: new leader. As Taylor puts on the charm our, country
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  Speaker 1: is in trouble.
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  Speaker 3: The Labor government has failed and the Liberal Party has
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  Speaker 3: lost its.
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  Speaker 1: Way, and the government thoroughly enjoys the libs discomfort.
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  Speaker 3: And it doesn't matter who sits in that chair. The
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  Speaker 3: problem is that the leader. The problem is that whoever
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  Speaker 3: sits there will just.
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  Speaker 2: Be the Liberal.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't interject when I'm addressing the House, and the
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  Speaker 1: leader of the opposition as well, just speak a give
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  Speaker 1: her a past order.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of for kind of you to refer to
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  Speaker 3: him as the deputy leader, mister speaker. The yeah for nowadays, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're covering all that live and our subscribers will be
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  Speaker 1: the first to know the results and what it means
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  Speaker 1: plus come back to the front first thing in the
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  Speaker 1: morning for one of our favorite guests, National Editor Dennis Shanahan,
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  Speaker 1: who brings his vast experience and sense of humor to
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