Zali Steggall (Warringah, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

To the Treasurer: the government has fast-tracked significant legislation that will pay the Labor Party, on current numbers, $2.7 million per year for administration assistance funding. That includes staff costs, attendance at conferences and seminars, office accommodation and even payment for interest on its loans. Do you accept that the government has failed to acknowledge any economies of scale and that this is poor economic management of public funds and an outrageous slap in the face for Australians doing it tough?

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