Richard Marles and Peter Dutton have faced off over the use of RAAF flights for travel, with each accusing the other of using the planes for inappropriate reasons.
The stoush began in Question Time on Monday when Liberal MP Andrew Hastie asked Defence Minister Richard Marles if he had taken golfing equipment when jumping on one of the $3 million worth of RAAF flights his office took in the last year.
“The fact that this is in the public domain is because this government released information about the use of the special-purpose aircraft during the period of time that the minister – the now leader of the opposition – was the then minister for defence,” Mr Marles said. The Defence Minister then dropped a bombshell; revealing that Opposition Leader Peter Dutton had lodged numerous requests to use the same RAAF aircraft he had been criticising Mr Marles for using.“As the now-Minister for Defence, my office has logged numerous requests from the Leader of the Opposition about him going on special-purpose aircraft,” Mr Marles said.
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