Speaker to face expenses reforms 1 First With The News Edition

The changes, to be personally approved by Premier Peter Beattie, are designed to eliminate the "ambiguity in relation to the Speaker's expenses" that prompted the investigation into current Speaker Ray Hollis. In a letter to the CMC last month, Mr Beattie said he was "appalled&qu...

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Published inThe Courier-mail
Main Author Malcolm Cole and Ryan Heffernan
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Brisbane, Qld Nationwide News Pty Ltd 01.04.2005
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Beattie, Peter
Hollis, Ray
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Summary:The changes, to be personally approved by Premier Peter Beattie, are designed to eliminate the "ambiguity in relation to the Speaker's expenses" that prompted the investigation into current Speaker Ray Hollis. In a letter to the CMC last month, Mr Beattie said he was "appalled" by the lack of rules governing how the Speaker's entertainment budget was spent. Mr Hollis is the third Labor MP to be investigated by the CMC in recent months, after former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy Minister Liddy Clark, and Mr Beattie himself.
ISSN:1322-5235