He chair of the ACT Tourism Board, Charles Wright, led a charmed life or had a guardian angel with respect to his taxation affairs, Liberal Senator Bronwyn Bishop said at a Senate Estimates Committee meeting yesterday.
The Minister for Administrative Services, Senator Bob McMullan, accused Senator Bishop of a scandalous misuse of parliamentary privilege to sully Mr Wright’s reputation.
Also yesterday, the Chief Minister, Rosemary Follett, stood by her appointment of Mr Wright as chair of the Tourism Advisory Board while the Leader of the Opposition, Kate Carnell, called for him to stand aside pending an inquiry.
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