Mary Aldred (Monash, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Communications. I refer to your previous answer. Were any ministerial staff or departmental officials present at the meeting, and were any notes taken?

Anika Wells (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Sport) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for her question. This has been the subject of a full audit of the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority. I voluntarily referred myself to IPEA to review all of my travel across 2022 to 2025. IPEA reviewed nearly 2,000 line items and 243 different trips during that time. During this trip, IPEA has deemed this trip's dominant purpose to be for parliamentary purposes. It encompassed four different matters across two days: an announcement of Sporting Schools funding and three other appointments across the two days. IPEA has viewed this to be entirely within the rules. If you have further questions, I can refer you to the report, which is publicly available and 256 pages long.

Opposition Members:

Opposition members interjecting—

Rob Mitchell (McEwen, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Do you have a problem with reading over there?

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The member for McEwen is warned.