US ambassador Joe Hockey bills Australian taxpayers for babysitters

Joe Hockey

Joe Hockey Source: Jerome Favre/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Joe Hockey, who once declared that the age of entitlement was over, has billed taxpayers thousands of dollars for babysitters to mind his three children, despite earning almost half a million dollars a year.As the Coalition moves to end so-called double dipping - where new mums receive taxpayer-funded parental leave at the same time to employer-provided payments - Mr Hockey has run up a $2,500 bill for child minding in just his first few months as US ambassador.Aaron has the details.



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