Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. How can the government justify splurging $1.1 million on parking fees for three offices of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, wasting $26,320 on a departmental planning retreat and squandering $17,699 on a managers’ conference? Wouldn’t the government agree that this money could be better invested in agricultural research to secure Australia’s food security?