Fed: Kevin Rudd's travel budget

AAP General News (Australia)
12-05-2008
Fed: Kevin Rudd's travel budget

In the first seven months of the Rudd government .. the prime minister's overseas trips
cost taxpayers just over 600-thousand dollars .. according to a register of parliamentary
travel released on Thursday.

But it wasn't just money being spent.

KEVIN RUDD's handed back 105 dollars related to a trip to Hong Kong in December .. 2005.

It was revealed earlier this year that Mr RUDD used the visit to get out of a dinner
with disgraced former Western Australia premier BRIAN BURKE.

The biggest ticket item on Mr RUDD'S travel itinerary was an 18-day round-the-world
trip .. which took him to the United States .. Romania .. Belgium .. Britain and China
.. at a cost of 427-thousand dollars.



Mr RUDD'S travel expenses for the second half of 2008 .. which will be released in
mid-2009 .. are likely to be just as substantial.

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