Federal MP and businessman Clive Palmer is referred to as a billionaire in the media, but he claims: "I don't say I'm a billionaire. I've never said that. I've never said I've got any money".

Opposition treasury spokesman Chris Bowen claims the Government's decision to scrap a $2,000 cap on self-education expenses will allow people to travel as much as they like and claim as much as they like.

Government frontbencher Christopher Pyne claims a VIP Boeing business jet flight from Perth to Canberra taken by a group of WA Liberal MPs was probably cheaper than a commercial flight

Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss claims if the sale of GrainCorp proceeds international companies will control Australia's ports and handling facilities, and decisions will be made in foreign boardrooms.

Greens MP Adam Bandt claims a recruitment freeze at the CSIRO is part of the Abbott Government's anti-science bias and that a quarter of jobs could be lost within a year.