Costing of the daily travel allowance for Members of Parliament travelling within 30km of Parliament House, Canberra
FOI Reference number
1/2019
FOI Request
The applicant requested documents dated between 1 January 1980 and 10 October 2019 relating to the costing of the daily travel allowance for Members of Parliament travelling within 30km of Parliament House, Canberra, documents relating to any adjustment and right to this allowance in relation to poverty, and documents relating to the adjustment and justification of this allowance in relation to social security payments such as Newstart.
Information published
The applicant was directed to publicly available information relevant to the request, noting that the work involved in processing the request, for almost 40 years’ worth of documents, would substantially divert the resources of the Secretariat from its operations.
