Expenditure

Kevin Rudd jet setting around the world partying with some of the world’s most powerful people might look like fun. It might even look like a waste of our tax dollars. Then again, it’s his job as foreign minister.

Suck it up, people. You might not like the guy but he’s got a job to do and he’s doing it. So what’s the problem?

Today The Daily Telegraph delivered a damning report of Kevin Rudd clocking up over $1 million on travel in his first nine months as foreign minister. Some will say it’s his revenge against Gillard knifing him in the back, making a big note of himself around the world. That’s rubbish.

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As Julia Gillard puts the finishing touches on a multimillion-dollar, taxpayer-funded ad campaign to sell her unpopular carbon tax, the Labor backbench has sent the Prime Minister a blunt warning.

Kevin Rudd once described government advertising as a “sick cancer within our system”. 

Before the 2007 election he said: “I can guarantee that we will have a process in place, run by the Auditor General ... you have my absolute 100 per cent guarantee that that will occur - 100 per cent guarantee. And each one of you here can hold me accountable for that.”

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