Politicians Cost £1,200,000 A Year
Australia’s 609 politicians cost more than £1,200,000 a year. In the following list of costs in 193738. the latest year for which figures are available, the first figures in each case are Federal costs, and the second State;—•
Allowances to members. Upper Houses, £33,877, £37,000; Lower Houses, £70,058, £169,701.
Railway passes £17,760, £69,911
Postage, £5981, £7037
Hansard, £BIO6, £12,623; other Parliamentary printing, £14,111, £30,510.
Reporting staffs, £10,906, £29,107,
Electoral expenditure, £126,411, £217,121.
Ministerial expenses, £18,287, £70,051
In the ten years to 1937-38, the cost of Australian Parliaments exceeded £ 13,250,000.
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Northern Advocate, 30 November 1939, Page 9
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