The Horse’s Mouth: Payman exits Lounge, Pollies forgetful on US junket, Senate’s Chekhov returns

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The Horse’s Mouth is our watchful eye on the interest disclosures by MPs and senators, plus whispers from our spies.

Senator Fatima Payman — who left Labor in 2024 over the Albanese government’s position on Palestine — is departing another club on principle, cancelling her memberships of Qantas’ exclusive Chairman’s Lounge and Virgin’s a-little-less-fancy Beyond Lounge last week due to concerns about the conduct of the airlines.

The senator told The Horse’s Mouth she quit the lounges because of “the behaviour of both airlines in squeezing consumers and workers, seeking to bolster their profits”.

The matter came to a head for Payman following reports Australia’s former favourite airline may be about to outsource 1,000 jobs offshore, with the senator saying this “is never a benefit to anyone other than shareholders, but it served as a reminder that there is a level of hypocrisy in taking a…

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