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Legislative Council - Fifty-First Parliament, Second Session (51-2)
2007-10-17 Daily Xml
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FREQUENT FLYER POINTS

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (15:14): Will the minister provide an answer to the question on notice from February this year in relation not to frequent flyer points from his credit card use (I am not interested in those) but to any taxpayer-funded travel?

The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY (Minister for Police, Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Minister for Urban Development and Planning) (15:15): As I said, when one gets a statement from Qantas the points are accumulated and all grouped together, whether it is for private travel or personal—

The Hon. R.I. Lucas: No, they are not.

The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY: I am sorry, they are. They are in my case because the frequent flyer points accumulate from both my credit card and from private travel. What I said was that I am very careful to ensure that I have not used any. On the few occasions that I have used frequent flyer points—

The Hon. R.I. Lucas: You are misleading the council.

The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY: I am not misleading the council. On the very few occasions that I have used frequent flyer points—

The PRESIDENT: Order! It is obvious that opposition members, when they are given an honest answer, do not like it.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY: Every time the member makes accusations, his technique is to continually interject so that one can never answer the question. He then takes a partially answered question and distorts it. I am just not going to have that, Mr President; it has happened too often in this council. As I said, in relation to frequent flyer points, I know what has been accumulated on my credit card, and any frequent flyer points that I have used have been within that total. I have somewhere in excess of 400,000 points accumulated, which includes the residual of private frequent flyer points that I have had for many years.

An honourable member interjecting:

The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY: I get a total each month that tells me how many points I have. Quite frankly, I have better things to do than go back through 10 years of records trying to sort out the difference between what frequent flyer points I get on private travel, plus credit card combined, and government travel. I know that I am very careful of what points I earn privately, and I have only cashed in those frequent flyer points. Quite frankly, I wish we did not get them. If there was some way I could opt out of getting frequent flyer points life would be so much easier because all it does is provide material for bored people, like the Hon. Rob Lucas, who have nothing better to do with their time.

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