Crossbenchers cancel their membership of airlines' elite lounges
Crossbench independents Allegra Spender, Helen Haines and Kate Chaney have declared they are pulling out of the elite lounges run by Qantas and Virgin, amid the ongoing spotlight on privileges politicians receive from the airlines.
Allegra Spender, the member for the Sydney seat of Wentworth, also said she'd write to ask Qantas and Virgin not to give free upgrades to parliamentarians. It was "time to end the upg