00:02The member for Catherine claiming a nightly $450 travel allowance when staying at a Darwin
00:08apartment she owns while on official business. The claims within the rules but on the nose.
00:15It's disgusting.
00:16Hersey's claims come to light one day after Labor's Manuel Brown was slammed by the CLP
00:23for claiming the same allowance when staying at his Palmerston home.
00:27If you own a property and you're living in your property the precedent is there that that is not okay.
00:33After Mrs Hersey's travel allowance claims were revealed on ABC Radio Darwin this morning
00:39the text line lit up. Most people angry, disgusted and asking why politicians can claim the $450
00:47allowance when public servants can't. On Darwin's streets the same reaction.
00:54I'd love for someone to pay me to stay in my own place.
00:56Is it the pub test that doesn't pass?
00:58I don't get that to stay in my own house.
01:01We're business owners and we can't do anything like that.
01:04The travel allowance similar to what federal politicians are entitled to. Other jurisdictions
01:10like Queensland are different.
01:12Where rural or regional MPs travel to Brisbane on parliamentary duties or official duties and
01:18they stay at their own home or that of a friend or family they receive a reduced rate.
01:23With Joe Hersey's claims taking the spotlight today, Territory Labor may have thought they
01:30had a reprieve from the speeding saga involving Manuel Brown, who was sacked as opposition whip
01:36yesterday, and to Federal Labor MP Marion Scrimgeour, offering free advice to Selina Yubo over the radio.
01:45This is her responsibility. I don't think the sanctions go far enough, but that's a matter
01:51for her. But I think that Manuel should have been completely stripped of his portfolios as well.
01:59Meanwhile, the opposition leader backed in Brown to be pre-selected for the 2028 election.
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