The report of the Review of Parliamentary Entitlements was released by the federal government in April. The committee concluded that the existing arrangements are “an extraordinarily complex plethora of entitlements containing myriad ambiguities”, resulting in “inconsistency, ambiguity, duplication, overlap, redundancy and gaps in the framework… The committee’s recommendations aim to ensure that senators and members are given relevant and adequate resources to do their jobs within a simplified, transparent and accountable framework that has regard to contemporary community standards. In making its recommendations, the committee has endeavoured to strike a balance between the needs of parliamentarians and public confidence in the appropriateness of the level of support provided to elected representatives.”
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