A person who exposes excessive expenses claims made by politicians and other public servants.
he wants to transform himself from a perk-buster into a statesman
Example sentencesExamples
- As Parliament's self-appointed perk-buster, he should support any move towards greater transparency and accountability.
- It's been revealed that this perk-buster extraordinaire went on a 3-week, taxpayer-funded holiday.
- He built his political persona as a "perk-buster" by working with Sunday newspaper journalists on a series of "scoops" which undermined others' reputations.
- The tragedy of the situation with the party is that it styled itself as the perk-buster of New Zealand.
- It said it would be the perk-buster party that made sure that every dollar was accounted for.
- But of course the perk-buster calls for accountability everywhere except in his own personal circumstances.
- To this day he refuses to answer why it was he - the perk-buster - who did nothing when he came back from that scam conference to go after the people who ripped off millions of dollars from hundreds of New Zealanders.
- He said his credibility as a perk-buster has not taken a knock.
- It is the party that was going to be the perk-buster.
- He uncovered several scandals and earned the label "perk-buster".