Australia’s seven living former prime ministers received $1.89 million in public funding in the past four financial quarters to cover the cost of their offices, air travel, car leases, fuel, and other expenses.
This is on top of their publicly funded staff.
Australia’s wealthiest former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull was the costliest for taxpayers. Turnbull, a Liberal who once called on Australians to “break the cycle of welfare dependency”, spent more than $422,000 of taxpayers’ money, according to the latest expenditure data from the Independent