Afternoon Update: Hanson bills taxpayers $16k for flood flights; Taylor’s ‘race to the bottom’; and Delta Goodrem’s ‘ripper’ performance

One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has billed taxpayers for three private flights in January. Photograph: Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images

Good afternoon.

Pauline Hanson billed taxpayers almost $16,000 for private charter flights to travel around flood-affected Queensland at the suggestion of Gina Rinehart, despite previously claiming the trip was at “no cost to the taxpayer”.