FED: Taxpayers foot bill for Ellison family's luxury holiday

AAP General News (Australia)
08-04-2007
FED: Taxpayers foot bill for Ellison family's luxury holiday

Taxpayers have reportedly funded a luxury holiday for Human Services Minister CHRIS
ELLISON and his family .. every year since 2001.

News Limited newspapers say Senator ELLISON claimed the cost of taking his wife and
three children on holiday to the five-star Cable Beach Club Resort .. near Broome in Western
Australia .. every July since 2001.

Air tickets and part of the cost of a beachside bungalow were claimed by Senator ELLISON
under Remuneration Tribunal rules .. which allow federal MPs to use money allocated for
trips to Canberra to travel instead within their home state.

Until this year .. he also claimed the costs of the family nanny accompanying them
to Cable Beach .. where his wife and children holidayed while he met with local communities
and attended meetings.

Records reportedly show Senator ELLISON'S claimed about a thousand dollars a year for
the holiday in 2006.

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KEYWORD: ELLISON (SYDNEY)

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