George Brandis is a "hypocrite," says Chris Bowen over expense claim George Brandis yesterday repaid $1683 in taxpayer funded entitlements he had claimed for attending a 2011 wedding. ATTORNEY-GENERAL George Brandis is one of the parliament's biggest hypocrites and should be stripped of his responsibility to draft a new code of conduct for MPs, interim Labor leader Chris Bowen says. Mr Bowen this morning hit out at the Queensland Senator who has been embroiled in scandal after it was revealed yesterday he attended the wedding of former 2UE radio shock jock Michael Smith on taxpayer expense. How can you ask somebody who has breached the old ministerial code of conduct so flagrantly to write the new one? Tony Abbott should relieve him of that immediately," Mr Bowen told ABC radio. Now, he's clearly one of the parliament's now biggest hypocrites having tried to hold other people to a very high standard, a standard he's failed to meet himself and to ask him, as Tony Abbott has done, to write the new ministerial code of conduct is a slap in the face to all of those who care about standards in public life. Barnaby Joyce says he's uncertain if he used a Commonwealth car to be driven to and from a 2011 wedding. Senator Brandis yesterday repaid $1683 in taxpayer funded entitlements he had claimed for attending the 2011 wedding, despite insisting he did nothing wrong. He said the trip was primarily for "work-related purposes" because it allowed him an opportunity to network with journalists. Mr Bowen said Senator Brandis only repaid the money after he got caught. "This was claimed about two years" ago and only once it got media attention did he decide to hand the money back after considerable pressure. And what's even worse is that he hasn't even admitted the error," he said. Interim Labor leader Chris Bowen says George Brandis should be stripped of his responsibility to draft a new code of conduct for MPs. The repayment of the money is a de facto admission but he hasn't had the good grace to say he got it wrong. In fact, to see the first law officer of the nation to claim that a friend's wedding in which he reportedly quote unquote, "tore up the dance floor," was a work related expense is pathetic." Senator Brandis attended the event along with fellow Coalition colleague and Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce. Senator Joyce said he paid for his own flights and hotel room to attend the event, however was uncertain if he used a Commonwealth car to be driven to and from the wedding. He said he was still going over his records. If there was any ambiguity about going from the Andrew Bolt show to the motel ... I'll refund it but it was a work day like any other day," Senator Joyce said.