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Minister ordered to pay $10k over travel expenses scandal

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Minister ordered to pay $10k over travel expenses scandal
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Anika Wells has been ordered to pay more than $10,000 in claimed travel expenses and fines after the communications and sport minister faced an extensive audit of her taxpayer-funded claims.Wells has repaid $10,116 to taxpayers, $8093 in wrongfully claimed expenses and a $2023 penalty, according to audit documents published by the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA).The IPEA found four trips out of a total of 25 which were claimed under the government's family reunion rule

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