Junkets for federal parliamentarians cost taxpayers $3.7 million since 2006

“They're exhausting, they're gruelling, you're sick of your suitcase”

- MPs and Senators from all parties have spent more than $3.7 million of taxpayers' money travelling the world since January 2006, parliamentary records show.

Despite their bitter partisan front since the election of the minority Conservative government, the politicians amiably shared airline executive class and luxury hotels as they journeyed to locations in all corners of the globe.

Delegations of MPs and senators led by Commons Speaker Peter Milliken and Senate Speaker Noel Kinsella had racked up $1,014,503 in travel costs to last January, with the expenses of two subsequent delegations to Peru and the Middle East still to be reported to Parliament. Read more