The Coalition has demanded the government explain how the Tourism Australia holiday scandal was allowed to happen, after the federal corruption watchdog announced it was giving up on investigating the matter.
Crikey revealed in April that three Tourism Australia employees had been fired for using $137,441 of taxpayer funds for personal travel. The incident was discovered by Tourism Australia in October and the trio had paid the money back by December. On June 4, the agency told Senate estimates it couldn’t answer questions about the matter because it was being looked at by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC).
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