{"id":350610,"date":"2026-01-17T20:26:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=350610"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:26:48","slug":"greens-senator-sarah-hanson-young-is-facing-an-internal-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=350610","title":{"rendered":"Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young is facing an internal revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young is facing an internal revolt over her contentious use of travel entitlements, with a motion headed to her party\u2019s state council accusing her of \u201cbringing the party into disrepute\u201d and demanding she repay almost $50,000 in claimed airfares. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Australian revealed in December that Senator Hanson-Young, the party\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That month is when Mr Oquist began working at DPG \u00adAdvisory Solutions, a Canberra-based government relations firm founded by Liberal operative David Gazard whose clients include Rio Tinto and Ausgrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian revealed in December that Senator Hanson-Young, the party\u2019s leader in the upper house, had charged taxpayers $49,902.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":350611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[19283,19282,19281],"class_list":["post-350610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-ben-oquist","tag-david-gazard","tag-sarah-hanson-young"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350614,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350610\/revisions\/350614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/350611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}