PM and Chris Bowen’s plane scandal exposes an ‘arrogant government’

Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says the recent VIP flight debacle with the Prime Minister and Energy Minister shows the government acts “without fear”. Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen both came under fire for using two RAAF jets to fly to the Hunter Region last week. Mr Bowen claimed that the decision to take private jets was in line with advice from the Royal Australian Air Force. “This should put them on notice; you can’t just be arrogant about these things and think you can get away with misusing VIPs,” Mr Clennell told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “If you’re going to talk about emissions, you’ve got to actually attend to that by not going on so many flights. “It builds into a narrative of an arrogant government, and Australians don’t like that.”