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Family Travel · Jan–Mar 2026

Kara Cook

ALPQLDBONNER

Family Travel · Jan–Mar 2026

$8,275

5.6× medianmedian MP’s family travel claim · $1,479

How Kara has been trending

2025Q02 → 2026Q01

Quarterly total across all categories, with the median MP for each quarter on the second line for context.

Lifetime claimed since 2025Q02: $485k. See the full Kara Cook profile for category breakdown and the largest individual claims.

Largest individual claims this quarter

All categories — the headline above is the family travel subtotal only.

  1. Aggregated Total
    Office Facilities
    $32,264.02
  2. Printing and Communications 1 Feb 26
    Office Administration
    $18,949.79
  3. Aggregated Total
    Employee Travel
    $15,290.64
  4. Printing and Communications 23 Jan 26
    Office Administration
    $11,035.00
  5. Printing and Communications 1 Jan 26
    Office Administration
    $3,694.62

Sources

  • Underlying figures from the IPEA quarterly expenditure report, Jan–Mar 2026 — sourced from data.gov.au/data/organization/ipea.
  • Median computed across every parliamentarian with a non-zero Family Travel claim in Jan–Mar 2026. Threshold for inclusion as a highlight is greater than 3× that median. See methodology.
  • Pollywatch reproduces the IPEA figure verbatim and adds no interpretation. Categories and amounts are from the source CSV; the comparator line is computed at build time.