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Family Travel · Jan–Mar 2026

Kate Chaney

IndependentWACURTIN

Family Travel · Jan–Mar 2026

$7,422

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

How Kate has been trending

2023Q02 → 2026Q01

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

Lifetime claimed since 2023Q02: $2.5 million. See the full Kate Chaney 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
    $43,997.09
  2. Aggregated Total
    Employee Travel
    $38,237.50
  3. Printing and Communications 1 Feb 26
    Office Administration
    $19,078.50
  4. Printing and Communications 23 Dec 25
    Office Administration
    $8,600.00
  5. Printing and Communications 23 Feb 26
    Office Administration
    $3,850.00

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.