Taxpayer funds trip for Hide's girlfriend

Published: 7:05AM Friday October 30, 2009 Source: ONE News

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Source: ONE News

There's fresh outrage over MPs' travel expenses with the man known as the "perk buster", Rodney Hide, under scrutiny for taking his girlfriend on a $50,000 taxpayer-funded trip.

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