Van Haylen: 446km taxpayer-funded trip for Transport Minister

Email The Transport Minister summoned a Sydney-based driver and van to her holiday house in Lake Macquarie so she and her friends could be chauffeur-driven to a private lunch, logging 446km in one day.

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