Queensland's opposition police spokesman Jarrod Bleijie appears to have outdone federal Speaker Bronwyn Bishop with helicopters.
Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath has revealed her predecessor, Mr Bleijie, spent $14,980 in taxpayer funds to charter two helicopters to visit a north Queensland youth bootcamp that is accessible by road, last year.
"With all of the outrage towards the Speaker of the federal parliament, I find it just as outrageous that the former attorney-general directed the department to pay for this," Ms D'Ath told AAP.
"He thought this kind of waste was appropriate because he didn't want to sit in a car."
Ms D'Ath said her departmental records showed Mr Bleijie, former Cairns MP Gavin King and former Thuringowa MP Sam Cox used funds set aside for youth justice programs to pay for a 300km return flight in two helicopters from Townsville to Lincoln Springs on June 17.
The three Liberal National Party MPs were visiting the boot camp to shoot a promotional video for the state government.
Ms D'Ath made the return trip to the camp by car on the weekend, taking three hours each way and costing her a single tank of petrol.
The attorney-general said Mr Bleijie had nothing else scheduled in his ministerial diary that day, and if the video was going to take a long time to shoot there was always accommodation available for him at the site.
"It's up to Jarrod Bleijie to account for this shocking waste of taxpayers' money," she added.
"If he can't, then Lawrence Springborg must remove him from his front bench."
The pressure on Mr Bleijie comes with Ms Bishop under fire for spending $5,227.27 on a chartered helicopter return flight between Melbourne to Geelong for a Liberal Party event at a golf club.
Her office had insisted the money spent on the trip was within entitlement guidelines. However on Saturday she admitted to an error of judgment and agreed to repay the money but not apologise nor step down as Speaker.
Comment has been sought from Mr Bleijie.
The trip would have saved Mr Bleijie an eight-hour car ride, deputy opposition leader John Paul Langbroek said.
"He also had significant security because of the VLAD laws that were around at the time," he said.
"The important thing is that all those details would've been checked or should've been checked with the department at the time to make sure that any travel corresponded with the entitlements of the department and the parliament."
When asked whether taxpayers would expect Mr Bleijie to repay the money as Ms Bishop had, Mr Langbroek replied: "There are too many hypotheticals in that question."
He did not accept the assertion that the trip was for an LNP promotional video.
Mr Langbroek emphasised that all MPs needed to make sure their travel entitlements were in line with parliamentary guidelines.
"I'm confident Jarrod Bleijie would have done that in his time as minister."
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