Prime Minister Tony Abbott says MPs shouldn't be expected to walk to work or stay in a tent while travelling.
"Please don't let anyone think that politicians are confined to base, and if they go anywhere they should walk and stay in a tent," he told ABC radio in Adelaide.
However he says MPs need to travel for work and it's important they abide by the rules when claiming entitlements.
Meanwhile, the man who undertook the last review into parliamentary entitlements says the system needs to be cleaned up.
Allan Fels, a member of the parliamentary entitlements review committee in 2009-10, says there has previously been a lack of political will for an independent and accountable system.
But he told ABC Radio the Bronwyn Bishop saga may have changed that, and Australia could move past the "mini-scandals" that have tarnished the reputations of some politicians.
Professor Fels said many of the recommendations of the review, chaired by former Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet official Barbara Belcher, weren't adopted.
One was to include a link to MP expenses on their websites.
The government has promised to look at the balance of the Belcher review proposals in its root-and-branch review announced in the fallout over Mrs Bishop's expenses.
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