Joe Hockey hits taxpayers with $45,000 garden party bill – but we aren’t allowed to know who went Australian taxpayers picked up the full $45,650 tab for the event. Mr Carstensen said he later learnt Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade staff were uncomfortable that he had met with Mr Hockey, who is one of Helloworld's biggest shareholders, owning more than $1 million of stock. It is normal practice for ambassadors to meet with official suppliers of services to their department. Cleaners found remnants of the broken table the morning after the party and photos of the shattered table were later shown at a Senate estimates hearing in October. Liberal MP Jamie Briggs was forced to deny speculation he injured himself while dancing on a table that evening when he was spotted the following day being carted around in a wheelchair. The office medical kit was found, in amongst the detritus, the next day. He said the circumstances around a meeting with Mr Carstensen and Helloworld subsidiary QBT had been "misrepresented". "Mr Burnes and his wife Cinzia are close personal friends of my family and have been for nearly 20 years. At all times Helloworld and Mr Burnes have acted properly in the tender process.”.
The Morrison government defended the former treasurer over his involvement in the Helloworld travel controversy this week, after a former company manager in the firm owned by Mr Burnes said he secured a meeting in Australia's Washington embassy at short notice because "Hockey owes me". Hockey fell straight through the middle,' Ms Savva wrote. The prime minister also told Parliament that Hockey, a former Liberal treasurer and one of the 20 largest shareholders in the company, had declared his interest ahead of an embassy meeting, though it was not about the travel service tender process.
Mr Joe Hockey declared his interest in Helloworld to embassy staff ahead of the meeting. “In 2017, QBT requested a meeting with DFAT personnel in the United States to discuss the provision of travel management services in the US and this meeting took place,” the statement read. Hockey worked as a policy advisor to Premier John Fahey before the 1995 New South Wales state election. Political commentator Niki Savva has now pointed the finger at Mr Hockey in her new book The Road To Ruin, which was released on Monday and details the bizarre relationship between Mr Abbott and his chief of staff Peta Credlin. Over 40 per cent of voters have cast their ballot; Trump needs a big election day turnout to win; the polls open in the US at 10pm. They rushed to help, as did Abbott, sustaining a cut in a process that needed to be bandaged. Daniel Munoz. Alex Ellinghausen. 'Different people jumped onto an expensive marble-topped Italian table to speak or dance, but when Joe Hockey hopped onto it, the marble cracked. Australian Ambassador to the United States Joe Hockey rejected suggestions he "owes" Helloworld boss Andrew Burnes. Former manager Russell Carstensen made the claim during budget estimates hearings on Thursday, saying he was dispatched to Washington after Mr Hockey had expressed frustrations to Mr Burnes about the embassy's "unprofessional" travel arrangements.
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