Australia's Labor Party has queried A$1.2 million ($1.35m) in expenses claimed by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop including a trip to the Sydney premiere of the new Disney-Marvel movie, Thor: Ragnarok.
Labor senator Kimberley Kitching told a Senate committee yesterday that the minister had spent the A$1.2m in a "variety of ways", including attending a polo match and the movie premiere.
But she was cut short when attempting to spell out the full list of spending.
She asked Attorney-General George Brandis whether the spending met the ministerial standards code, which called for frontbenchers to "refrain from wasteful and extravagant spend of public money".
Brandis said Bishop was "one of the most experienced and most respected ministers in the Australian Government".