Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young is facing an internal revolt over her contentious use of travel entitlements, with a motion headed to her party’s state council accusing her of “bringing the party into disrepute” and demanding she repay almost $50,000 in claimed airfares.
The Australian revealed in December that Senator Hanson-Young, the party’s leader in the upper house, had charged taxpayers $49,902 to fly her lobbyist husband Ben Oquist to and from Canberra on 78 occasions since July 2022.
That month is when Mr Oquist began working at DPG Advisory Solutions, a Canberra-based government relations firm founded by Liberal operative David Gazard whose clients include Rio Tinto and Ausgrid.