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NT CLP senator Sam McMahon explains taxpayer-funded flights to Queensland during election

Northern Territory CLP senator Sam McMahon, who spent part of a trip to Townsville supporting LNP candidates during last year’s Queensland election, says she was entitled to bill taxpayers for flights because the main purpose of the trip was to research live cattle export policies affecting her constituents.
Key points:
- Senator McMahon says she helped LNP candidates at polling booths in her own time between official meetings
- She says the primary purpose of her trip was to discuss live cattle issues with a former university academic
- The NT senator plans to repay the flights in order to use her limited travel entitlements on other interstate trips
Parliamentary travel records, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, show Senator…
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