Public servants spent more than $3.7m on domestic business class flights in a year

Public servants are taking hundreds of business class flights between Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.Based on figures from 11 Commonwealth departments for the 2021-22 financial year, bureaucrats took more than 4000This masthead had applied for the figures from 14 government departments through Freedom of Information laws.

One bureaucrat for the Department of Industry booked a flight between Canberra and Sydney for $916.64. Former senator Rex Patrick said it was generally unreasonable for public servants to be taking business class flights that were under four hours. He said going business class on short flights such as Canberra-Sydney was not in line with community expectations.

“A public servant who is willing to burn through our money on unwarranted business class flights is the same public servant who will burn through our money by throwing it at other useless government initiatives,” he said.

Nothing surprising here

so? the govt spent 40x that on upgrading *one* f private school. get over yourselves. work is done interstate.

given that the DoD was the biggest spender, the rest of the figures seem low given it’s then only about 1 mil split between the 14 agencies FOI’ed.

$3.7m? Seriously, SMH - did you happen to question the $38b squandered with the JoshFrydenberg JobKeeper scheme because it didn't have an adequate claw-back provision? There's a reason why your readership and credibility is steadily declining.

And?

Even cheapest, Melbourne to Sydney return on Qantas cost 1k+ on flexible. Not only gov but corporate employees (it’s not my money) are paying at these rates for their Qantas status points.

Senior executive service (SES) level that's around 140k plus a year travel business as do every politician but every other pleb public service APS1 to EL2 travel economy and normally the cheapest far of the day, that's about 80% of public service. Facts not fiction or headlines.

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Public servants spent more than $3.7m on domestic business class flights in a yearThe fares included hundreds of trips between Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, revealing the fact that there is no consistent policy for domestic travel across the Commonwealth public service. auspol Need a Melbourne - Canberra - Sydney - Newcastle - Brisbane fast train..... But i'm sure it has already been said 1000 years ago. they do not need it for any flight except maybe perth, darwin, broome Pathetic
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