Andrew Laming says watchdog has done ‘nothing’ since he refused to repay expenses it found he wrongly claimed

The expenses watchdog issued Andrew Laming with an invoice for $10,360, which he refused to pay. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Outgoing Liberal National party politician Andrew Laming says the expenses watchdog has done “nothing” since he publicly refused to pay back more than $8,000 in travel expenses he was found by it to have wrongly claimed.

The Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (Ipea) audited a single month of Laming’s travel in 2020 after a Guardian Australia series on MPs’ expense claims.