The Premier says flight upgrades are a grey area.
The New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally has admitted she has received flight upgrades that she has not declared.
Senior minister Ian Macdonald has been accused of accepting free business class upgrades from Emirates Airlines at a time when he was making decisions benefiting its owners, who are involved in the horse breeding industry.
Mr Macdonald was primary industries minister during the equine influenza outbreak in 2007.
He denies any suggestions of a link but he says he never questioned why the upgrade was given.
"I don't think there's one person in this room that would ask that question," he said.
'They'd say 'thanks you're very kind.'"
MPs are required to declare any gift valued over $500.
Last night Mr Macdonald amended his pecuniary interests to include the flights.
The Opposition's calling for his resignation but the Premier says many politicians receive upgrades and do not declare them, including herself.
'This is a grey area, the rules are not particularly clear," Ms Keneally said.
"I'm asking parliament to provide some advice."
She says Qantas upgraded her children when they flew with her while she was on an official trip to the United States.
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COMMENT: Of all the petty, childish allegations which are levelled at politicians, this would have to be the absolute pits.
The New South Wales Opposition is scraping the bottom of the barrel with this sort of unmitigated muck-raking. NSW
Premier Kristina Keneally is 100 percent right that this a a grey area. If it needs to be clarified, so be it but the Opposition
should be concentrating on serious issues rather than its spineless, irrelevant, political attacks.
