This is the best summary I could come up with:
Images of a federal MP in fancy dress appear to have contradicted claims he was unaware his wife was being paid to run face-painting and dress-up classes by a business that had government contracts.
The ABC also located another photo, posted to Mr Entsch’s official Facebook page on March 19, showing him posing with two of the entertainers that his wife had hired to run the workshops.
No caption accompanied the image, which was part of a series of pictures taken at a function to open a new aged care facility on Thursday Island during the same period in 2019.
Yolonde Entsch is the Liberal National Party’s candidate for the state seat of Cairns and her work with not-for-profits and Indigenous communities has been promoted by the LNP as part of her credentials for the political role.
The business has received millions of dollars in government funding to run work-for-the-dole style programs and training, mostly in remote Indigenous communities across northern Australia, over the past decade.
The ABC does not suggest that the couple has acted illegally, and Mr Entsch has vigorously denied any impropriety in the scenario, saying he had no obligation to make any potential conflict-of-interest disclosures.
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protist@mander.xyz 7 months ago
And yet here this article it is, all but directly making the accusation that they’ve done something wrong