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Grace Crivellaro

Call for independent body to review minister's spending

Communications Minister Anika Wells says she didn't break any travel expenses rules. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

The coalition is pushing for an independent body to review the communications minister's spending, but the prime minister has defended her travel expenses.

Anika Wells came under fire for the $100,000 cost of flying herself and three staff to New York to promote Australia's teen social media age ban, with further details emerging about trips she took to Paris, Thredbo and Adelaide.

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