Peter Duttons taxpayer-funded flight to long lunch on Noosa River was investigated by expenses watchdog

The expenses watchdog launched an investigation into then-home affairs minister Peter Dutton’s use of a taxpayer-funded flight to attend a “long lunch” on a luxury island on the Noosa River in 2019, internal documents reveal. Dutton billed taxpayers $465 for a flight from Sydney to Maroochydore on 19 July 2019, the same day he was to appear alongside the then-Queensland opposition leader, Deb Frecklington, as a special guest at a private event on Makepeace Island, a resort island part-owned by Richard Branson. The invitation to the event, seen by Guardian Australia, describes it as an “exclusive long lunch on Makepeace

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