Cando - Australia's Voice's Posts

“Jet setting bureaucrats have been slammed by Tim Andrews of the Australian Taxpayers' Alliance for raking up millions of kilometres in luxury air travel. While Aussie families are struggling, bureaucrats are living the high life and travelling to exotic destinations while we foot the bill," he said adding that it was "an utter disgrace.” Officials from the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency spent $3.274 million last year , travelling the world to speak about the perils of a warming planet, he told Barclay Crawford of The Sunday Telegraph (17/6). Their carbon emissions were equivalent to those from the electricity needed to power 113 homes for a year. Their staff took in some of the world's premier holiday destinations, including Cancun in Mexico, the Maldives, Vanuatu, Miami and Grenada and Guyana in the Caribbean as well as the usual destinations - London, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo. More than 42 flights cost more than $10,000, -$10,000. One flight from