PM's visit to cancer hospital used to 'justify' fund-raising visit

By Latika Bourke
Updated August 27 2014 - 9:15am, first published 8:00am

Prime Minister Tony Abbott told government MPs he had to schedule an early morning visit to a cancer research centre in Melbourne on Tuesday so that he could justify billing taxpayers to be in the city for a "private function" the night before.

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