So it seems Labor ministers are not guilt free.

It would appear Tony Bourke flew his entire family BUSINESS CLASS to Uluru at the taxpayers expense

Hmmmm.... Glass houses

I expect Bono the Log and friends will be equally outraged and demand his resignation !!!

www.theaustralian.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has demanded a comprehensive audit of every MPs' entitlement use over the past five years, claiming "no reasonable member of the community" would back Tony Burke's claims for family travel to Uluru.

Mr Wilkie today said he had written to Finance Department secretary Jane Halton to seek an audit of every MPs' claims since the election of the Gillard government in 2010.

"There seems to be a widespread practice of parliamentarians travelling at the public expense, often with family members, even though any reasonable person would identify their journey as being principally for personal reasons. At best this is deeply unethical, at worst fraudulent," the Tasmanian MP said.

"The accusations in The Australian newspaper today about Tony Burke taking his family to Uluru is a case in point because no reasonable member of the community would feel that the cost of such a journey should be borne by taxpayers.


"Former Speaker Bronwyn Bishop's misuse of entitlements formed a pattern of behaviour prompting me to call on the Federal Police to investigate. If the Finance Department audit is to identify similar patterns of misbehaviour, or egregious individual episodes of misconduct, then I would expect those matters to also be referred to the Federal Police."

However Bill Shorten today dismissed concerns about Mr Burke's use of travel entitlements for his family's holiday to Uluru as "dirt throwing" by the government.

The Opposition Leader this morning said Mr Burke had "clarified this matter".

"To those Liberals of Mr Abbott, the more that you want to just ruin the reputation of politics instead of dealing with the real issues here, which is that the Prime Minister's captain's pick as speaker has turned out to be a resounding disaster. You still don't get it do you?" Mr Shorten said in Melbourne.

More details of the 2012 Uluru trip show Mr Burke, a key opposition attack dog in the Bronwyn Bishop affair, charged the taxpayer for his family to travel business class at a cost several times that available through regular economy travel packages.

Questions have also been raised over a week-long overseas trip to Europe by Mr Burke, during his time as environment minister, where his expenses averaged $10,000 a day.

Mr Burke made the Uluru trip between April 19 and April 22 that year, during school holidays, in what he says was a trip on government business when he was environment minister and in which he brought members of his family.