A senator from the Australian Greens, Larissa Waters, has called for a parliamentary inquiry into the tax, describing it as a "rort" (Australian slang for scam).
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Andrighetto's speech led to an investigation, and Halfpenny was subsequently charged and found guilty of defrauding WorkCover."Halfpenny denies rort claim", Herald Sun, 5 December 1997.
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"Bill Shorten backs Nova Peris despite rort allegations". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 30 October 2014. Boldon subsequently described the accusations as containing "gross fabrications" and threatened legal action.
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It was revealed before the 2016 federal election that each Liberal MP pays a company called Parakeelia $2,500 a year from their taxpayer-funded office allowances to use software that collates constituent information. In fact, Parakeelia is a Liberal Party-controlled entity all of whose profit flows to the party. The structure, described by some commentators as a rort, made the entity the party's second-largest single source of revenue in 2014-15.Federal election 2016: Mystery deepens over Parakeelia as Cormann ducks questionThe Saturday Paper, 18 June 2016, Mike Seccombe, Parakeelia: The inner workings of the Liberals’ funding rort Parakeelia paid $500,000 to the Liberal Party in 2015.
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In June 2010, during the Senate discussion on the proposed Paid Parental Leave Scheme, Fielding suggested "some women may rort the scheme by deliberately falling pregnant and then having a late-term abortion". He was subsequently criticised by all sides of Australian politics for these comments.
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In 1993, the rent to be charged was $367.95 per square metre. Due to a "ratchet clause", which specifies that the annual rent would increase by 9% or market rates (whichever is the greater), in 2004 the annual rent is $949.47. The current estimated market price in Canberra for rented space is $330.00. The Federal Opposition (the Liberal- National Coalition at that time) demanded an enquiry to what they saw as a "rort" and the Keating ALP Government set up a Royal Commission.
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"Debnam lying or impotent - endorsed MP". Sydney Morning Herald, 16 October 2006. He resigned from the Liberal Party during Question Time in Parliament on 17 October, announcing his intention to serve out his term as an independent, and recontest his seat as an independent. The government used its numbers to suspend standing orders so Pringle could speak at a time of maximum coverage, and in an explosive attack Pringle criticized Clarke, Debnam and the Liberal Party, claiming that the party was being controlled by "an exclusive sect" - referring to Clarke's membership of Opus Dei - labelling Clarke "the Godfather", and calling the preselection "an absolute rort".
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The Royal Commission (headed by Trevor Morling QC) found that the rent charged "was a fair market rental for accommodation in a building such as Centenary House. This was supported by extensive market evidence and there is nothing to suggest that it was excessive". The ratchet clause was also found as justified because it was "well supported by historical rent movements" and that "the length of the term is not disadvantageous to the Commonwealth". A second Royal Commission was appointed by the Howard government, and during 2004 Howard government ministers, particularly Tony Abbott, repeatedly accused the ALP of improperly profiting from the alleged "rort" of the lease.
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In the Australian Labor Party (ALP), besides membership stacking, another technique is to take advantage of the favoured position of unions within the party, especially the significant vote they have at ALP State and national conferences, which in turn determines party policy and elects internal office holders and membership of committees. The committees may in turn determine preselections for party candidates at elections. The number of members in a union determines the number of delegates to the conferences to which it is entitled. This offers an opportunity for stacking to take place at the union level,Bill Shorten ally Plumbers Union boss Earl Setches in Labor numbers rort which then flows through to other organs of the ALP.
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Williams was a highly controversial figure during his career, and was involved in several scandals. ;Tribunal record Williams frequently found himself in trouble with umpires and had many tribunal appearances – often as the result of overzealous retaliation against his taggers. He was charged a total of 19 times, found guilty 12 times, and suspended for a total of 34 matches during his career. He was also known for his generally impolite treatment of umpires, and the Tribunal found him guilty of verbally abusing an umpire on three occasions, for which he was twice fined and once suspended. ;Illegal player payments In February 1992, it was uncovered that both Williams and the Sydney Swans had breached the league's salary regulations. Williams had received additional, undeclared payments via one of Sydney's sponsors during the 1990 season, with both the club and the player aware of the rort.
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