The arrangement allowed him to return to Parliament House on Monday morning to join Social Services Minister Anne Ruston at a summit on women’s safety and to speak with national security officials face-to-face for a cabinet committee meeting.
Flight radar websites showed that one of the Royal Australian Air Force’s business jets,a Dassault Falcon 7X,flew from Canberra to Sydney on Friday in a 25-minute flight and returned to Canberra early on Monday morning.
Mr Morrison posted a Father’s Day message on social media on the weekend showing him with his wife,Jenny,and their two daughters,in a photo taken earlier this year.
Labor disability insurance scheme spokesman Bill Shorten criticised the cross-border travel on Tuesday morning on the grounds that ordinary Australians were being blocked from seeing their families.
“I think Mr Morrisons’s exercised poor judgement in this case. I was a bit surprised when I read he had done this,to be honest,” Mr Shorten said.
“It’s not that he doesn’t deserve to see his kids but so does every other Australian. And I think that when your people are doing it tough,you’ve got to do it tough,too.
“I know for a lot of MPs when we leave Canberra we’ve got to spend two weeks locked down away from our families. So I just don’t know how he was able to get a permit when most people can’t.”