Politicians' entitlements look extravagant in isolation -- $12,000 for a trip to Uluru, $5000 for a trip to Geelong, etc -- but it is not until you see the costs in aggregate that you get the sense this is more than a bit of frittering.
Pollies will cost $506m in 2015-16 — $2.2m per MP, largely driven by entitlements
We give our pollies an extraordinary amount of money in entitlements, writes economist and journalist Jason Murphy. Here's what else you could get for your money.
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